Broken Hill is Australia’s famous mining town and it’s also the first serious stop for the Indian Pacific on the first morning of its three-night trans-continental run from Sydney to Perth. It comes early, however, before breakfast, so the Indian Pacific’s dining car crew provides coffee, tea, juice and some pastry for those interested enough…
The Indian Pacific rolled sedately into Perth this morning at 10:40 – dead on time. The trip was really excellent. I’ve always found that most people, rail enthusiasts or not, are mainly interested in hearing about the accommodations and the dining experience, so I’ll spend a little time on both for this first post. I…
Yesterday was a full day, starting with a 7:30 a.m. pick-up at the hotel and ending – finally – with a very welcome drop-off more than 12 hours later. In between there was a little wine tasting and a lot of driving. The wine country, an area known as Hunter Valley, is north up the…
SYDNEY – This is a very cosmopolitan town. In fact, coming from Hawaii, I feel quite at home seeing so many Asian faces here. But there are also Indians and Pacific Islanders and Middle Easterners and Europeans. In fact, my contact with Great Southern Railway was born in Holland, grew up speaking Dutch and French,…