Travel

  • Woodend visit booked

    Woodend visit booked

    Woodend’s place in the region’s literature circuit will be highlighted on Postcards. The town’s two bookstores and their owners will…

  • ‘Glamping’ comes to Castlemaine

    ‘Glamping’ comes to Castlemaine

    While this year has been immensely difficult for local tourism operators, Big 4 Castlemaine Gardens Holiday Park has used the…

  • Old Kyneton Hospital’s haunted house aesthetic

    Old Kyneton Hospital’s haunted house aesthetic

    The old Kyneton Hospital features in a new photographic book that tours Australia’s abandoned places. Shane Thoms’ Abandoned Australia uncovers…

  • Let off some steam!

    Let off some steam!

    With the school term break now in full swing, a special steam train running between Castlemaine and Maldon has been…

  • Hitting the open road

    Hitting the open road

    All of us have owned a ‘shitbox’ at one stage of our lives and have probably been grateful if it…

  • Dramatic palettes

    Dramatic palettes

    Creative Castlemaine couple Rosie McKenry and Bruce Mitchell have notched up the sort of travels many would envy. In their…

  • This project was picked!

    This project was picked!

    A project engaging local teenagers to help build Australia’s biggest miniature railway at Harcourt has won a $198,000 boost, emerging…

  • Travel writer sets down swag in the ‘Maine

    Travel writer sets down swag in the ‘Maine

    There’s not much of Australia that Lee Atkinson hasn’t seen. But when it came to setting down her swag on…