T
he best thing would be to cross the Southern Australia from Perth to Adelaide by car taking various stops, so you can visit more places and go on the coast, but it’s not always easy to find travel companions for such long stretches and having already booked the train ticket could not lose that money.
So greeted Perth, I take the Indian Pacific Train, the train traveling from Perth to Sydney and vice versa, the trip lasts about 32 hours, and I must say that as far as you love train travel, it’s too long and tiring. The train only makes two stops, one in the evening for an hour and the next day in the ghost town of Cook. The landscape also varies very little and after a while, the bush Australian begins to tire and disorient. At first, when I was booking the train I did not consider that the train would have made a route with a minimum view of the ocean, but it is to say that Greyhound, the bus company does not operate in Western Australia, the only alternative was the plane I did not want to take.
The trains are very comfortable, the only flaw is that despite the uneconomical cost, no meal is included but this time, unlike the trip to Ghan, I had arranged to buy food at the supermarket.
After the endless train journey, I finally arrived in Adelaide and I had a huge shock after all those hours to observe nothing but trees and flat landscapes but above all because of the climatic difference in this part of Australia. By now almost a month I had traveled and lived in hot places, but now I felt catapulted in the winter of Northern Italy, because in Sydney the winter is not so gray and ugly as it is here in Adeaide especially considering that it was actually spring!
And so the rain and the much lower temperatures have made my good humor decisively down.
I can not say much about Adelaide because I only spent a day and a half, but it did not sound like a city, even though it has nothing to distract from the others. Botanical Gardens, which is usually one of the first things I’m interested in visiting, are kept fairly well and are big, definitely better than those in Brisbane. There are beautiful museums and a beautiful old style library that reminded me of some European libraries where the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia is inside. The staff was very nice because when I told them I was a geographer and I was traveling to Australia I got into their offices, seen and touched (with due precautions) old geographic books and they visited me ‘library wing reserved only to workmen, great!
VICTORIA
I decided this time to leave for a night bus for this short Adelaide-Melbourne trip and so I came to the capital of the Victoria State, the eternal rival of Sydney, in the morning at 6 am.
Melbourne liked me as much as I had already predicted the climate was not great, cold and even rainy.
Unfortunately, due to an unexpected on the Great Ocean Road, I will later talk about I have not been able to visit the botanical gardens but I can say that I have shot enough town that in fact remembers Europe for its beautiful palaces, cafes And restaurants with tables in the streets.
For those who know Europe that European cities are just another thing, but I understand how many others prefer to Sydney. As far as I’m concerned, if I wanted to live in a city that reminds me of Europe, then decide to go live directly in Europe, especially if you consider the climate that is very European. Sydney, on the other hand, stands out in many respects, and as the climate has changed and winters are colder, it has a fabulous climate and is surrounded by beautiful beaches!
However, Melbourne is much more active from the artistic and cultural point of view, both because of the many museums in the city, but also for the air that breathes and the street art that is now being the subject of true photographic expeditions from Part of tourists. And it is in these moments that I think of what Italy could give if only there was more cultural and tourist promotion.
If you want to see the sea, do not miss the beautiful beach of Brighton Beach with its famous colored caste houses. Brighton Beach can be reached in several ways, but the most direct is the bus or train because the tram does not reach Brighton Beach but in Brighton and from there you have to walk for half an hour to reach the beach. In any case and in any way you decide to get there do not miss out on this beautiful outdoor trip!
The Great Ocean Road is famous for its coastal roads, for animals that can be encountered along the way as the Koala but above all for the Twelve Apostles, granite rocks emerging from ocean waters. Actually, as some know they are not Really twelve because some have collapsed just a few years ago, but the name remained unchanged.
My trip to the Great Ocean Road did not go as I expected for such adverse weather, rain, the wind and low temperatures, but above all because of an unexpected encounter with the car that I and my boyfriend hired we are not Succeeded in seeing this famous goal.
Luckily we were able to see several koalas, parrots of every color, alpaca and we have seen beautiful landscapes, but I will have to postpone on my next trip to OZ the visit of this wonderful place, sigh…