Alice Springs, most famous of Australian outback towns

After a week on a tour bus in the desert, fighting off clouds of flies as thick as rain, and rain as thick as mud, and mud as thick as, well, tourists, I was ready for a few days in town to scrub off the dust. I’d heard all about the Alice, its colourful history, [...]

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The Red Centre Australia

It’s pretty difficult to find something original to say about Ayers Rock. Formed umpteen million years ago at the bottom of an inland sea, it just doesn’t change much. Still, every year about a half-million tourists shuffle out to pay their regards, to ooh and aah at sunsets, touch its flaking sandstone surface and perhaps [...]

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