Ray's Blog: May 2015

Last Man Standing: Australia's Only Desert Retreat

They tell me it's the only desert retreat centre in Australia, and the only desert with trees in the world. That's because root systems have had millennia longer to establish themselves here than in places like the Sahara. I have learned something. I thought desert meant hot. Now I...

Brisbane

Once it was described as the largest city in the southern hemisphere. Its skyscrapers are people friendly at street level, individual in style and offer each resident a bay window view of its parks and river. This city is coming alive. I booked in to a B&B near the river...