Spending summer in the Riverland of South Australia means endless blue skies, lots of BBQ’s, lovely walks by the river. Unfortunately it also means multiple hot dry days, restless warm nights, dust and yukky flies! Not my favourite things. Always interesting to catch up with our friend Chris in Northern Ireland. He has the wood…
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Well here we are – safely out of COVID quarantine and settled into Berri again. Our time in quarantine seems like a distant memory and although it “could” count as an “adventure” it’s not necessarily one we want to repeat! Berri is one of a number of small towns in the Riverland of South Australia;…
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This post is part of a series called Dublin to outback Canada The Empire Builder pulled into the Seattle train station a good 6 hours late. Our connect bus to Vancouver had long gone. The bus was provided by AMTRAK – the American train people – so we weren’t stranded. All included in our ticket….
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This post is part of a series called Dublin to outback Canada The Empire Builder – our train from Chicago – continued its journey across the USA. The next leg was Spokane to Seattle – our destination. We’d made very slow progress overnight crossing Glacier National Park – huge snow falls. We were now running…
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This post is part of a series called Dublin to outback Canada Love train rides! We boarded the Empire Builder in Chicago on Boxing Day – destination Seattle. 2200 miles/3500 kms of fascinating, diverse scenery. The train crosses Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Washington State. Many, many miles of wide flat prairie land before…
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