You work hard all day, only to be faced with more chores and dinners to cook at night – and if you’re very lucky, a smidgen of you time before falling into bed to get ready to do it all over again. Time for an escape people! A fun Aussie holiday that whisks you away from Groundhog Week into an era or place where you just don’t know what might happen next…  

You can turn those peak hour traffic fantasies into reality by getting amongst the dusty action of the Quit Forest Rally in Nannup, WA from 16-18 April. Watch rally drivers fang their metal steeds along dirt roads, inches from trees and rocks – without a single speed sign, blasting horn or ungrateful merging lane driver in sight. There’s plenty of other rev head eye-candy too, with motorbikes and classic cars competing in their own series.

Shift back into neutral at the Abbey Beach Resort Busselton.

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Oh I say! You’ll have plenty of time for dainty and daring English style romance at the Jane Austen Festival in Canberra from 14-17 April. Dress up in period costumes, dance to live heritage band music at various dos and learn all about Regency hairstyling and more. Quite!

Where else would budding Miss Elizabeth’s and Mr Darcy’s stay but in the traditional and classic surrounds of the Hyatt Canberra enjoying each other’s company over high tea?

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You know the story. The house is quiet, you’ve popped open a bottle of classic red and the velvet smoothness washes over your tongue and palate as you close your eyes to relax and savor the melange of flavours— then the kids barrel into the room and announce they’re boredom.

There’ll be no such interruptions at the Barossa Vintage Festival 2011 in SA from 23 April to 1 May, where adults can get stuck into some serious plonk and gourmet food tasting while the kids wear themselves out on the bouncing castle before settling down to some storytelling and Easter egg hunting.

About an hour away is the Crowne Plaza Adelaide, with its very own adults only steam room.

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Speaking of steam, you can blow off those pent up frustrations at the Hunter Valley Steamfest from 9-10 April. This fun family event highlights the history of trains through movies, books painting and stories. There’s everything from actual steam engines to model displays, mini-train rides, market stalls and a Kids Adventureland with face painting and coal shovelling!

Then all aboard for the Comfort Inn Cumberland Hunter Valley, to swan about in the salt water solar heated swimming pool.

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