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the publican’s post

ChairsWelcome to the Hotel Gadabout. Why not kick back in our especially designed armchairs (or the bang seat for those more adventurous) and relax, enjoy a refreshing ale but go easy on the bar snacks. It’s your window into the daily traipsing of your average, and not so average, gadabout. This is the ultimate armchair travel guide… with a twist.

The revolution is long overdue, so flush that flashy guidebook and abandon those overcrowded accommodations and eateries (the ones reviewed in the latest guidebook). Its time to get out there and pave the way, because we know where to sleep, drink, and eat, and if we don’t…. we know who to ask.

Join our Gadabout Guides in their pursuit of the most amazing day. You can sit back and view the virtual vagabonding or post comments and make suggestions for our wayward wanderers. Or are you also an itinerant of sorts? Why not actively participate? We want to know about your excellent adventure, we want to experience your perfect day.

introducing the gadabout guides…

Baby WendyWendy Kramer: Wendy, old German for “the wanderer”, has spent much of the last ten years living up to her namesake. Her day job as a Geologist involves exploring for minerals in some of the more lonely corners of Australia. When not “out bush” she adapts well to a relatively civilised existence in Perth.

An interest in travel writing and photography was ignited by a year backpacking around the world, but she recently agreed to lend her viticultural expertise (mainly wine consumption) and update the Hunter Valley section of the Sydney & New South Wales guidebook. Enticed back by the fond memories of playing between the oak barrels at the old Saxonvale Winery as a child (but not so fond memories of being clobbered in the head by a stray gumboot during a gumboot throwing competition at the winery once). Life is short and the world is wide… but Newcastle is home.

At 30 Wendy, surrounded by friends with momentous mortgages/diamond rings/piles of dirty nappies, is mostly inspired and partly comforted by the J.R.R. Tolkien quote…”Not all those who wander are lost”.

(Pub: extract from www.lonelyplanet.com)