The Story - its Beginning….
….and what ADOT is about
A Day Outdoors Touring was conceived, founded and is operated by Garth Foxwell. Touring since 1999, A Day Outdoors is one of ‘less-than-a-handful’ of Melbourne-based private tour businesses still in the day-to-day control of its founder.
Always, the quest is to create and conduct personalised and private touring programs for you. Programs that are engaging, informative, fun and offer authentic experiences. I know many of my guests visit with the desire to see those dreamed of 'Aussie' places. But also to enjoy the experiences that go with this. We strive to match the dream and more. To achieve this, the aim is to be truly attentive and responsive to you - our guest.
Private Touring
….is when your pleasure is my pleasure!
Private touring often suits a variety of situations. Perhaps you are one or more couples travelling together and simply want to enjoy your own time together. You want to 'free-wheel'. Do things of interest to you. Perhaps you’re touring as a family. You want a day to suit you - something for the adults, equally, attractions and interests to suit the…."‘younger folk’. Mostly, it’s your chance to spend some special travel time and experiences together.
The main thing is the touring is to your preferred schedule. It’s fluid and suits your ‘time-line’. A regular example is those visiting on a cruise liner wanting a shore excursion to suit a schedule. (I’ve heard it a ‘million’ times - the ship leaves at 6, we’ve got to be there by 5!) Finally, there's the group of work colleagues. Corporate or business groups often want the chance to enjoy a day of touring or sightseeing or exploring, yet the privacy and ability to range over various work matters too.
Touring Now….
To begin, I want to present touring programs in two broad packages. One package is mostly concentrated on Victoria’s Wine Regions or ‘Wine Country’ as some know it. The second package features the ‘big bang’ attractions found in and around Melbourne and throughout Victoria.
(Sure you can have a little overlap between the two. Neither list is exhaustive! Just tell us what you’d like to do.)
Victoria’s Wine Regions
I love Victoria. In any direction I - well ‘we’ - travel, there are signs pointing to vineyards and ‘Cellar Doors’. It almost seems there is something down every country road! Of course with wine goes food. How good is that! As the most temperate of Australia’s mainland states, Victoria is fortunate to be able to offer a fantastic array of growing conditions. This means there is plenty of quality food and wine and more produced right across the state. In addition our various wine regions offer plenty of culture - local and grand, festivals and events spanning music, sport and celebrating our outdoors.
Go on, get out amongst it….
Melbourne and Victoria’s Attractions
The smallest of Australia’s mainland states - Victoria and it’s capital - Melbourne are not lacking for great things to do and see. So much so, that many of my visitors from elsewhere in the world often say: ‘…we’ve got three days here, wish we had more!’. I’ve even heard: ‘my travel agent just put Melbourne into the itinerary without saying much about it - but we have loved it!’. There’s been plenty of other compliments about this place too. While I have lived or worked in every state, and can spruik benefits of each, Melbourne and Victoria is home, the state is compact and simply it has a diversity that is hard to match.
Come and have a look at this….