Do u use the company Aquatrek to organize your travels.

no Pete. Have always done my own reseach and plans - even to which flights etc In fact that part of it I enjoy as much.

Yep I too have a British passport so leave on my Aussie one and arrive on my britishone. When you say you get 30 percent of the Rail fare what fare is this from . As the rail fare on the intercities can change every sec . So you ha e to buy on line and the further in advance the cheaper . What I do is buy the First class Brit Rail Pass at Senior rate  for say four days in three months . Which gives me unlimited travel for the four days . What I find is that it last me a lot longer than four days as the inspectors don't check that you have put a date on ( naughty but fun) maybe a senior card as well for local travel might be an idea. I love the trains in the UK . Once when I still had days left on my Brit Rail pass I took th train from Chestefield up to Edinburgh and down to London just for the ride. I also like the TGV  the one from Zurich to Paris is a fab ride. 

One of my favourite trips is intercity first class London to Aberdeen . Then taken connecting scenic viewing train across the highlands  to Kyle of Lochcleash  then ferry to Fort William then train back down the West Coast to Lodon . From Fort William you can catch the overnight sleeper for a small supplement.

The seniors card is £30 and then when you book, you're asked if you have a concession card and when you addd it it changes the price. We find we save much more than that on the local train travel we do over two months each year. Last year we stayed in Shrewsbury for two weeks and didn't hire a car as we were near the station and it cost us very little compared with a car and the horrendous price of petrol and parking, and a lot less hassle.  The fares from London to Durham and London to Yorkshire were very much reduced. I guess it depends on how long you're there for and how much train travel you want to do.

As far as I remembner we get a third off the cheaper fare when booking well ahead and also a third off the top price for the fares you book at the last moment.

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If you ever get a chance take the Settler to Carlisle  train it is unbelievable .

We did that one some years ago. I was born in Yorkshire and my mother has a friemd who lives in Settle. We've booked a cottage in Skipton, right on the canal,  for two weeks next July and will do some more train travel then. We've also done the 'Harry Potter' one over the viaduct, from Fort William and back in Scotland.  

The most boring one we've ever done, at great expense I might add, was from Barcelona to Paris. We thought it would be exciting but apart from a nice meal, it was very uninteresting, racing through empty countryside at a million miles an hour! Nearly as boring as Adelaide to Melbourne!

jaywalker

We usually drive from  Adelaide to Melbourne - love the Great Ocean Road.

The other thing of course is you can stop off at diifferent spots of interest,

camp over or go for a bushwalk.

Robi,

The Adelaide Hills are still very pretty.

I live in Stirling and the local council ensures that the main streets remain treed and well planted and that the plants are seasonal.

Seggie. Of all the places we visited, and Norfolk was one of these, three times, simply beautiful. Wonderful views, sad history (similar to Tasmania) but read up on it before you go. If you want to shop, check prices here first and take a list. Used to be very reasonable but like everything, prices have gone up. Would recommend Norfolk provided you don't want a hectic night life.

Beutiful island.   You pay extra to do interesting things like go into the local's homes for dinner etc but it was worth it. Good value holiday with gorgeous scenery.  Dreadful history, some of the things the tour guide told us about what went on in the jails made my hair stand on end. Do go to Norfolk Blue for a steak, she breeds her own Blue cattle.  Food and accommodation about two and a half star.

I remember driving from Adelaide to McKay in Queensland in 1963 with a Holden Premier Station Wagon. And two children . No Lake in Canberra . Single track bitumen To Townsville dirt to Cairns. 

Sorry Pete, your memory is wrong.  Lake Burley Griffin was actually completed in 1963.

Sorry Innes that was the dams it was not filled to 1964 when I went through in 1963 no lake .

I was promoted to a position in Goulburn in April 62.  (the ass end of the World)  I had my first drive to Canberra around a year later & I am sure I remember Lake Burley Griffin then.  Maybe my memory is wrong.

Aaron I was driving a Jowett 2 stroke at the time and was bogged on the passenger side, wheels sinking into the mud, alongside bitumen, no flood , just mud. Highway was only two cars wide then.

Aaron, my first trip to Canberra, from Goulburn was in 63 & you did not go very far (about 10Ks) on the Hume before you turned off onto the Federal Highway. Lake George actually had water in it. 

Sandi I remember that drive well, The hills were fairly steep .

Yes Abby let's hope we can close this awful camp again .