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bane ($56, 4½ hours) and Tenterfield in NSW ($20, 45 minutes), with connections to
To tour the Granite Belt wineries, either take a guided tour or bring your own set of
wheels (plus a sober friend to do the driving).
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Toowoomba
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Squatting on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, 700m above sea level, Toowoomba is
a sprawling country hub with wide tree-lined streets, stately homes and down-to-earth loc-
als. There's not a whole lot going on here from the travellers' perspective (in fact, when
we asked a local friend 'What should we do when we get to Toowoomba?', his reply was
'Leave.'…): but if you've been darting across the state from end to end and need a break,
it's not a bad spot to stop and chill out for a day or two.
The air is distinctly crisper up here on the range, and in spring the town's gardens blaze
with colour. Not only is the 'Garden City' Queensland's largest and oldest inland city, it is
also the birthplace of two national icons: the archetypal Aussie cake, the lamington, and
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush.
