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Clunes by the Book
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 6 May 2012
One of the best things about living in Melbourne but not having grown up here, is that I have many undiscovered towns to visit outside the city in the state of Victoria.One of these was Clunes, where I've spent the weekend. A small town of 1000 people north of Ballarat, it's famous for being a book town along the lines of Hay-on-Wye in Wales.
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Geelong to Ballarat: All Aboard!
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 10 April 2012
It's exactly 150 years today since the railway reached the Victorian gold mining town of Ballarat, on 10 April 1862.Those were heady days for Ballarat: only 11 years since gold was discovered, creating a bustling settlement from nothing; and only eight years since the Eureka Stockade armed rebellion against the colonial authorities.Nowadays there's a line directly linking Ballarat to Melbourne, but in 1862 the Ballarat route ran through Geelong, itself a busy port made busier by the gold rush.
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Pieces of Daylesford
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 February 2011
Since the 19th century, the twin towns of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, about 90km northwest of Melbourne, have attracted visitors wanting a brief escape from urban life.The big drawcard, then and now, were the spa waters associated with the famous bathhouse in Hepburn Springs. The towns are also popular for their upmarket accommodation and dining.
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Finding the Best and Worst in Daylesford
Blog: Away Together - 26 February 2010
Daylesford is a charming little community about an hour and a half north of Melbourne. Set around a lake and ringed by forests, it’s an oasis in the countryside where miles of grassland and gum trees all start to look the same and the country roads seem to go on forever.
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Sovereign Hill: New Gold Mountain Remixed
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 8 November 2009
Lola Montez and I have a history. In 1855 she scandalised Victoria’s polite society by performing her saucy spider dance across the colony.
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Barbecue at Hanging Rock
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 2 November 2009
Partaking in a barbecue at Hanging Rock, was I in any danger of vanishing into the ether like those poor schoolgirls in Peter Weir's classic film?
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Castlemaine by Pod
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 April 2009
The problem with imagining the gold rush era in regional Victoria is one of the imagination: how do you revive the exciting chaos of those days within the peaceful, settled scenery of today?
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