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You are here: Home / Travel / Destinations / Australia / Queensland / A short holiday road trip out West, first stop Dalby

A short holiday road trip out West, first stop Dalby

Written by Troy Spro

What does our family do over the Christmas holidays, a short holiday road trip, because that’s what we normally do….

This year was no different with a late decision to head out to Dalby and also the Roma area, which is about a 220 km drive just to Dalby from Brisbane depending on which side of the bridge you live on.

We headed off in the car around the middle of the afternoon, you have to allow toilet stops and food breaks for trips like these when you have the little monsters angels with you.

We hadn’t planned anything for this trip other than what we were packing in the suitcases and taking the kids.

No plan in what we were going to do and no plans for how long we were going away for, we just knew we were going to travel to Dalby first, see what there was to do there and then head off to Roma after that and have a look around that area too.

We ended up staying for two nights in Dalby and then two nights in Roma so four nights away in total and I tell you what, it was a great little escape to finish off the Christmas holidays.

Drive Time and Travel Distances

Here is a run down on our days away, just follow the links down the bottom of this page to get more details of the next day or if you are reading further on you can come back to this start page.

Day 1 Travelling to Dalby

Travelled to Dalby in the car
Booked into the Drovers Motor Inn
Had Fish n Chips from a place just down the road after finding out about the Dalby RSL

Day 2 Jimbour and Jandowae

Went to the Dalby Information Centre
Took the drive from Dalby to Jimbour
We visited Jimbour Station
Then we drove from Jimbour to Jandowae
Had lunch at the Club Hotel which is the pink coloured hotel in Jandowae
Visited the Dingo Fence Display in the Jandowae town centre
Visited the old Queensland National Bank built in 1913/1914
Athlone Cottage built in 1890
Visited the Dingo Barrier Fence start and drove along it for a while
Drove from the dingo fence to Dalby back to the Drovers Motor Inn
Salad meals in the room from the supermarket

The Drovers Motor Inn Dalby Queensland Travel

Day 3 Miles, Chinchilla and Roma

Left Drovers Motor Inn and started the drive to Miles
First stop was the Dalby Pioneer Park Museum and we didn’t go in
Stopped at the Boonarga Cactoblastis Memorial Hall
Morning tea at Chinchilla Pioneer Cemetery across the road from the Chinchilla Information Centre
Lunch at the Creek Café in Miles
Visited the Miles Historical Village Museum
Drove from Miles to Roma
Booked into the Bungil Creek Motel which is part of the Best Western chain of Motels
Chinese food for dinner at the Golden Dragon Restaurant

Day 4 Roma Things to Do

Visited Big Rig and the Lenroy Slab Hut Museum
Lunch in the park of The Roma Express
Visited Roma Saleyards
Went to Romas Largest Bottle Tree
Walked down the Avenue of Heroes
Visited Roma Court House
Next we were off to see The Bell
Out to Mount Abundance Homestead
Looked at the Southern Cross Windmill
Went into Roma Community Arts Centre
Looked at Roma RSL
Went through Roma Cemetery
Italian food for dinner at the White Bull Tavern Roma in their restaurant Cantina 43

Day 5 Roma, Miles and back to Brisbane

Booked out of the Bungil Creek Best Western Motel
Bought a Bottle Tree to plant at home across the road from the motel
Stopped in Miles on the way back for a Driver Reviver and lunch next to Miles Railway Station
Finished the drive from Roma to Brisbane

Dalby Night Sky Queensland Travel Holiday

So we certainly crammed a lot into the 5 days away and it was great fun seeing some parts of Queensland that we haven’t been to before, so indeed a great short holiday.

As I said above I’ll run through each part and have photos of each part of the trip in the following posts.

Just hit the highlighted text to take you through to the next part of our holiday away to Roma.

* Find out more about Day 1 travel to Dalby here, “Road Trip off to Dalby on Day 1“

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