Victoria Travel Stories Articles

The Penguin Parade: A Boxing Day Event! – Philip Island, Victoria, Australia

Rachel Nena Krasno watched penguins climb the beach towards their burrows – an amazing feat for half-pint sized animals with seagulls as their enemies.

5 Days Around Victoria – Victoria, Australia

Douglas Spadotto tours Victoria on a motorcyle.

Swagman #20 – Back to Sydney, Down to Melbourne – Melbourne and Sydney, Australia

The run down the east coast has seen George’s bank account dry up. Fortunately, there’s plenty of free things to do in Melbourne.

Melbourne’s Sun-Worshipping Saint – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Alison Brick found this beach suburb, southeast of

If Only… – Victoria, Australia

A routine fishing trip turns into a battle against

City Slickers Go Bush – Victoria, Australia

Deb Ashby is a self-admitted city slicker. So what

The Buddha’s Striptease #10

Todd swaps cars, and swaps the Outback for Adelaide and Melbourne, but his heart is still in the bush. He might stay, he might leave Oz, but no matter, no worries.

Chasing Horizons #29a: Melbourne Friend (- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Meeting up with an old friend contributed to Phil’s shift in lifestyle from “roaming backpacker” to “urban yuppie”.

Chasing Horizons #29b : More Melbourne Friends

Phil reckons those travellers that make their way Down Under but only seem to settle in Sydney are missing out on the country’s best city.

Travels without a Plan #10

Melbourne Mumblings
After all the excitement of the opening weekend of the Olympics, to say that arriving in Melbourne was a bit of a shock to the system would be an understatement. It also did not help that for the day before I was feeling like death warmed up, I think with a 48 hour [...]