Hi, and welcome to 2 Aussie Travellers. I’m Toni and I’m happy to see you here. Why don’t you grab a cuppa and I’ll show you around?
What we’re all about at 2 Aussie Travellers
I started this website, together with my husband Drew, to share our travel photos, experiences and the lessons we learned along the way. Travel budgets are limited for most of us so we’re here to help you squeeze the most fun times and fabulous adventures you can out of every travel dollar.
We live by the philosophy that you shouldn’t wait for the holidays to enjoy yourself, explore and experience new things. Get out and see what’s going on in your city. Take short breaks and get away for the weekends. Even a day trip can turn up a completely new experience and a destination you’d not found before.
I was born in the UK, lived a large part of my life in New Zealand, spent a short time in the USA and for the past 16 years I’ve called Australia home. We’ve travelled to 25+ countries and can claim a passport from three.
Our key travel destinations
Our travel plans continue to focus on Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region.
Australia is our home, Queensland to be precise but we plan to see it all eventually. It’s a huge country and we’ve been fortunate to see so much already but we won’t be done until we have explored all corners and as much as possible of what lies in between.
New Zealand is our second home, it will always have a strong draw for us with many family and friends based there, and we will continue to return regularly. It has so much natural diversity and beauty in such a compact package. A trip ‘home’ to New Zealand is always quite exceptional.
Japan has been my long-time passion. It all started with a school project when I was 7 years old. We’ve been travelling back frequently now since 2010, over 13 years, and we still have so much more we want to see, do and share with you. Another trip with exciting new destinations off the beaten track is in the planning stage and we can’t wait to share it with you.
We hope you’ll find some inspiration, useful information and planning tips that will help you on your own adventures. We’ll also be keeping you updated with what there is to see, do and eat in South East and Central Queensland in case you find yourself passing through our home base sometime soon.
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Disclaimer
This is a personal blog, the views, experiences and opinions are ours as the blog owners. We don’t claim to be experts on the topics, products or services that we visit and write about, details should be verified directly with the provider or distributor.
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Fiona
Wednesday 21st of June 2023
Just wondering if you can suggest a place to book into pub camping show grounds or holiday park
Probably need power & water
First ever trip in our vans only learning
Toni Broome
Monday 26th of June 2023
Hi Fiona. Your comment hasn't come through on a specific article, what areas are you looking at staying?
Valda Tout
Tuesday 13th of June 2023
Hello, just found your ginger biscuit recipe, wondering if you are adding the warm mixture to the dry ingredients or vice versa? Doesn’t quite say..
Toni Broome
Wednesday 14th of June 2023
Hi Valda. I use a large saucepan to melt the butter and mix it all in there so dry ingredients add to wet. I do give it a couple of minutes to cool before mixing in the egg. I'll take a look at the recipe later and see if it can be made clearer. Thanks.
Vim
Thursday 18th of May 2023
Hi, We are going to Japan for the first time this October. Love your blog! Just wondering where you stayed in Tokyo and Osaka.
Vimala
Sunday 4th of June 2023
@Toni Broome, thank you so much for getting back to me and for the suggestions!! So looking forward to your article.
Toni Broome
Sunday 28th of May 2023
I have an article going up soon to discuss the factors we consider when deciding, the different parts of the cities we like to base ourselves and discuss some of our personal favourites. In the meantime some we have used and would return to in both cities are:
Osaka The Namba/Umeda area is our preference now and we like Swissotel Namba and Namba Oriental Hotel, near Osaka Station the Hilton Osaka was good and we always like the Granvia Hotels that are located adjacent to the main train stations in many cities.
In Tokyo we have stayed in the Tokyo Park Hotel in Shiodome several times, it has good JR and subway access, plenty of restaurants and you can walk into central areas like Ginza and Tsukiji market from here. The Hotel New Otani in Akasaka Mitsuke is another one we stay at regularly, it has beautiful gardens and easy access to all the main subway lines, JR and restaurants.
I hope that is some help in getting started.
Amanda
Tuesday 14th of March 2023
Hi, I was wondering where did you stay in Hobart? I am going with my mother in law in July and have no idea where to start. Any advice?
Amanda
Saturday 25th of March 2023
@Toni Broome, Thank you
Toni Broome
Saturday 18th of March 2023
We stayed at the Hotel Grand Chancellor on the waterfront. We found the waterfront made a great base, as we were there without a car and walked all through the city and waterfront area, took a bus up to the brewery, a ferry to MONA and a couple of days we took tours further afield to Port Arthur and Bruny Island.
Jennifer McMahon
Wednesday 15th of February 2023
Hi, Where do you stay in Kyoto? Cheers Jennie
Toni Broome
Thursday 16th of February 2023
Hi Jennifer. It depends on the trip, we've stayed at the Hotel Granvia several times in the Kyoto Station area, it is so easy arriving through on the airport train at night to just walk upstairs and for longer day trips on the bullet train. The bus and subway depart from the station too so easy to get around the city from there. We also like Citidines Karasuma Goji, it is one subway stop from the station but that is a nice walk for us if we are going somewhere and about 1 km to Shijo Dori which is a main shopping street, access to Nishiki Market and along to Gion and Yasaka Shine. Yasaka Shrine and Kiyomizudera are about a 2 km walk. Another spot we love if we are immersing in Kyoto city and not doing so many day trips away, is the Gozan Apartments on Sanjo, they are in the Higashiyama area, short walk down to the canal and follow the river along, lots of restaurants and cafes nearby.