About Clunes Clunes is a small village one and a half hours drive north of Melbourne in country once mined for gold. To get there from Melbourne, you drive over the western plains, through valleys that supply Melbourne’s markets, past […]
Lord of the Rings gave us New Zealand and 2008’s Australia gave us, well, Australia. Baz Luhrmann breaks his seven year directorial drought to give us a sprawling epic of the most environmentally diverse country on the planet. Accompanied by […]
Australia is slightly smaller than the lower 48 continental states. It is the only nation in the world that is also an entire continent. The country is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Indian Ocean to […]
For most of its life it was a sleepy fishing village but now it’s a growing cosmopolitan seaside destination. But is it still worth a visit? My grandfather bought his holiday home in Nerja about 25 years ago, when I […]
In the ancient mountains around Teruel sits a tiny medieval village beautifully unafraid to show its age. Polished and prettified medieval villages are a dime a dozen in Spain. Clinging along a craggy thrust of rock wrapped by the clear […]
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