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Sydney Road Trip To Brisbane Taking It Slowly
here are a great many road which nestles in the Burringbar
trips people embark on in ranges near the NSW/QLD border).
Australia that look quite
breezy on a map, but turn out to If you don't have a car, you can
be just slightly longer than you save money by organising a rental
thought. online - sites like
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Sydney to Brisbane is one of together all of the latest prices
those kinds of trips, which, if on offer from the most popular
you were keen on sticky-taping a car rental companies. You can be
brick to your accelerator, you'd sure of getting a great car hire
make it in about 12 hours. It's Sydney deal. Once you've got out
more than likely, however, that of North Sydney and onto the
you'd end up having fairly robust Pacific Highway, one of the
conversations with drivers of popular places for a rest would
semi-trailers. And those men are be by the Hawkesbury River, which
fairly large and possess many flows into Broken Bay, and is
tattoos. surrounded by three national
parks. If bushwalking isn't your
The other, more road-safe option thing, then maybe a spot of
is to meander your way up the fishing in the bay might just
Pacific Highway, and stop off at take your fancy?
your leisure. There's all sorts
of nooks and crannies dotted up Newcastle - a few hours on - is
the coast - sublime fishing spots another place you'll stop by.
in the seclusion of scrubland, Sometimes the word of mouth for
hustle and bustle beach towns, this place is less than
national parks, hippies in the encouraging, but it's well worth
hillsides, and just plainly odd a visit. It's blessed with many
little villages (like Mooball, beaches - the most popular being
Nobbys Beach (for some reason a tiny resort town of Nambucca
very common name when it comes to Heads, the big banana near Coffs
beaches in Australia). There are Harbour. But you're now
also loads of students and fast-approaching one of the most
therefore a thriving music scene. popular corners of NSW.
And there's some beautiful
architecture to be found in the The farmers grow bananas and
terraced houses and old colonial sugar cane. The hippies hug the
buildings. trees. The yuppies (who always
follow the hippies wherever they
Further onwards will find you go) make everything fashionable
pulling in to Port Stephens, and sell coffee. And the
which is barely an hours drive backpackers and students just
away from Newcastle. If you've drink the beer.
ever dreamt of dolphin spotting,
then this is one of the places to The north-east corner of NSW
do it. There are a load of takes in the truly picturesque
charter vessels whose business it towns like Bangalow, Mullumbimby,
is to search out the 150 or so Byron Bay and Murwillumbah.
local bottle-nose dolphins that There's the
play in the waves close to the determinedly-alternative Nimbin.
coast. There's also plenty of And then there's just odd little
little resort towns and villages villages like Mooball - where the
nearby. telephone poles and local servo
are painted in the pattern of
There are plenty of other little dairy cows.
towns and laid-back cities like
Port Stephens to varying degrees It's only another two-and-a-half
- you'll be passing by the hours to Brisbane after that
beach-laden Port Macquarie, the (some people fall into the trap
of stopping in at Surfers its Queenslander houses all
Paradise and giving all their leaning up against each other
money to the Jupiter's Casino or while everyone's down in West End
the clubs on Orchid Ave). having coffee and
people-watching. It's hard not to
Laid-back Brisbane, with it's like Brisbane - the weather is a
unendingly sunny days (bad for bit like natural prozac. Have a
the gardens, but good for the lovely time in Queensland.
soul) and its rolling river, and
About the Author:
Alyssa Betts has travelled around to different parts of the world testing out the local beverages and desserts. She now works for http://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au
Source: www.isnare.com
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