Author(s): Bronwyn Maddock; Brian Maddock (Editor); Lucy Veling (Designed by)

Travel

'Audrey' is a tale of a 24-year lass from Australia, who travels overseas post WW2, arriving home 3 ½ later to marry her 'beau', met on the return voyage. Audrey's adventures extend from working in Tunbridge Wells, England, and Toronto, Canada, to travelling through the UK, the Continent and the USA. Through a compilation of photos, newspaper clippings, travel pamphlets, original artifacts, and letters written home to her family, she details her escapades through the lens of a girl, from country Dandenong.

Memories include; traveling via ship to England, hitchhiking, sleeping in haystacks and a German officers' bunker, attending church with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, youth hostelling, tasting paella, sauerkraut and Italian coffee for the first time, attending a German wedding, navigating border crossings, meeting bears in Yellowstone National Park, driving 'Matilda' across the USA and the predicaments of traveling during the 1950s.

'Audrey' is a social history that may evoke memories for those from this era or enlighten current generations of the tenacity and adventurous spirit of their grandparents and parents.