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title: Australia
url: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/places/australia/
lang: en
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# Australia

Travel journal from Australia, with 11 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Fernvale and the Somerset Region, Bacon and eggs with the owner's fresh eggs, Barbecued kangaroo steak, Bottletree Hotel.

## Journeys

- [Borrowing a small house in the Australian countryside](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/australia/index.md): Country Life in Australia（2023-03-25）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Bacon and eggs with the owner's fresh eggs](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/bacon-and-eggs-with-the-owners/index.md): Eggs fresh from the farm owner's hens, fried in an iron pan alongside bacon.
- [Barbecued kangaroo steak](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/barbecued-kangaroo-steak/index.md): Kangaroo from the town butcher, grilled on the barbecue in the yard.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Fernvale and the Somerset Region](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/fernvale-and-the-somerset-region/index.md): Fernvale is a town in the Somerset Region, about 61 kilometres west of central Brisbane, with a population of 3,629 at the 2021 census.
- [The Australian meat pie](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/australian-meat-pie/index.md): A hand-sized pie of minced or diced meat in gravy, baked in pastry.
- [Lamington](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/lamington/index.md): Squares of sponge or butter cake dipped in chocolate sauce and rolled in coconut.
- [XXXX and Great Northern, the beers of Queensland](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/xxxx-and-great-northern-the-beers/index.md): XXXX is the beer of Castlemaine Perkins, a brewery founded in Brisbane in 1878; the XXXX brand dates from 1924 and is still brewed at Milton in Brisbane.
- [Vegemite](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/vegemite/index.md): A thick, dark brown spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with vegetable and spice additives: salty, slightly bitter and malty.
- [The Ned Kelly wanted poster](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ned-kelly-wanted-poster/index.md): On the veranda wall hung a poster reading "WANTED NED KELLY £2000." Ned Kelly (1854-1880) was one of the last of Australia's bushrangers.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Bottletree Hotel](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/bottletree-hotel/index.md): The pub of Glamorgan Vale, the locality next to Fernvale.
- [Old Fernvale Bakery & Cafe](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/old-fernvale-bakery-and-cafe/index.md): A bakery and licensed cafe with big red signs on Fernvale's main street.
- [Fernvale Butchery](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/fernvale-butchery/index.md): A red-roofed weatherboard butcher on Fernvale's main road, with a "Last Country Killed BEEF" sign out front.