Saw some glossy today for why you should visit South Australia and it mentioned Kangaroo Island, Eyre Peninsula and Flinders Ranges but not how to get there sanely.
Now what gets me about this shit-hole country is how regional aviation is just about ignored. No mention of it in terms of getting to these three places from Adelaide or interstate ports.
But no, they'd rather have the tourists eating in shithouse petrol stations's with the 5 hour old spring rolls in the bain marie or petrol station burger with the lot, or Maccas if you're very lucky, or some old biddie feeding you the local pie as if that itself was a tourist attraction.
Add to that crap roads, pathetic lack of scenery en-route and a general boganesque tone to the whole affair.
And then, magically, you get to these three locales and you're having your hawaiian stone massage in the day spa and white table clothes and afternoon cocktails looking at the sunset and seared tuna and so on. You need all of the above to recover from the shit roads, shit drive and shit food!
Yet if you even dare mention Rex or something even better that could be introduced, or the need for hire cars at regional airport terminals, or how much better if they had all-in packages...you'd be treated as a real fool.
As Lenin said - "What then must be done?"
Now what gets me about this shit-hole country is how regional aviation is just about ignored. No mention of it in terms of getting to these three places from Adelaide or interstate ports.
But no, they'd rather have the tourists eating in shithouse petrol stations's with the 5 hour old spring rolls in the bain marie or petrol station burger with the lot, or Maccas if you're very lucky, or some old biddie feeding you the local pie as if that itself was a tourist attraction.
Add to that crap roads, pathetic lack of scenery en-route and a general boganesque tone to the whole affair.
And then, magically, you get to these three locales and you're having your hawaiian stone massage in the day spa and white table clothes and afternoon cocktails looking at the sunset and seared tuna and so on. You need all of the above to recover from the shit roads, shit drive and shit food!
Yet if you even dare mention Rex or something even better that could be introduced, or the need for hire cars at regional airport terminals, or how much better if they had all-in packages...you'd be treated as a real fool.
As Lenin said - "What then must be done?"