When to go, where to walk
City guides
Sydney in late spring, Melbourne laneways and day trips, a first Tasmania loop, and Perth to Margaret River when you only have a long weekend.
Perth to Margaret River in a long weekend
The west coast does not owe you a three-week loop. A long weekend still works if you pick surf, forest or wine and refuse to do all three at full speed.
A Tasmania loop for first-timers
Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake will try to become the whole trip. Let them be a chapter. The island is a loop, not a single postcard.
Melbourne laneways and day trips
Flinders Street is the meeting point. The city is the laneways, the galleries, and the day trips you should not all attempt on one Sunday.
Best time to visit Sydney
Late spring still does the work the old site said it did: fewer crowds than high summer, warm enough to swim, cool enough to walk to the next attraction.