Australia Travel Guide

Best Sunday Markets in Australia I have chased Sunday markets across this entire country, from the trestle tables of a tiny hinterland hall behind Byron Bay to the sprawling shed rows of Fremantle, and I can tell you the Sunday market is where Australia actually shows up. Not the airbrushed postcard version, the real one:…

Best Jet Boating Experiences in Australia There’s a moment in every jet boating ride when the driver goes quiet, the engine drops a note, and you realise something is about to happen. Then the whole boat spins flat and hard across the water, spray goes up like a wall, and everyone screams at once. That’s…

Best Zipline Adventures in Australia There’s a very particular kind of quiet that hits you thirty metres above a rainforest floor, strapped into a harness, toes curled over the edge of a wooden platform, about to trust a steel cable with your life. Then you push off, the wind fills your ears, and the whole…

Best Gin and Whisky Distilleries in Australia I still remember the first time someone handed me a dram of Tasmanian single malt in a tiny bar in Hobart and told me to forget everything I thought I knew about whisky. I laughed, because I’d spent years assuming Scotland and Japan had the whole game sewn…