
As soon as the train leaves Perth, you begin to feel how immense Western Australia truly is. The city dissolves, the horizon opens, and the landscape stretches out as if it’s breathing.

The cliffs at Hallett Cove are no ordinary rocks. They were shaped by glaciers that moved across this landscape around 280 million years ago.

You wander through maze-like streets filled with cafés, street art and trams that glide by with that cheerful, familiar ring and then suddenly: calm. A sea of green.The quiet sound of leaves instead of car horns.

Perhaps Melbourne fascinates me so much because it is a city of layers. A place where thousands of years of Aboriginal history meet colonial ambition, gold-rush wealth, modern design and that unmistakably Australian calm.