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Top weekends away

What's your idea of the perfect short break: coastal, gourmet, urban, romantic, luxury, nature, family or country? <em>Good Weekend</em> editor Lauren Quaintance picks the best of the best from our annual guide. All you have to do is pack your bags.

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Top weekends away

What's your idea of the perfect short break: coastal, gourmet, urban, romantic, luxury, nature, family or country? <i>Good Weekend</i> editor Lauren Quaintance picks the best of the best from our annual guide. All you have to do is pack your bags.

Eat, play, love it ... Young is host to all things cherry next month.

A summer of pip stops

From harvest festivals to street car cred, Lee Atkinson explores some crowd-pleasing events.

Stanthorpe

<b>Stanthorpe</b> <br> <b>Large and prosperous township on the New England Highway near the NSW border.</b> <br> Stanthorpe is a remarkably attractive town set in the middle of a rich, mixed farming area where rural activities range from vineyards, wineries and orchards to sheep and cattle grazing. Located on the New England Highway 223 km from Brisbane via Warwick, 56 km north of Tenterfield and 811 m above sea level, Stanthorpe is unusually cool for Queensland. In winter the night time temperatures in the town often fall below zero - the average minimum temperature for July is 0.3&#176;C. In fact the town once recorded -14.6&#176;C - the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Sunshine state.

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A quiet service centre in the Darling Downs.

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Far trek ... afternoon tea is served Jo Hegerty.

If these gums could talk

Jo Hegerty straps on her hiking boots and walks with the ghosts of bullockies and pioneers.

A classic 'Queenslander' house

Inglewood - Places to See

<b>Inglewood</b> <br> <b>Small and typical rural service centre.</b> <br> Located 271 km south-west of Brisbane and 284 m above sea level Inglewood is a typical rural service town. Once an important tobacco growing town, a past which is evocatively recalled with a thoroughfare named 'Tobacco Road', it is now a service centre for a mixed agriculture area.

The signpost pointing everywhere in the main street of Goondiwindi

Goondiwindi - Places to See

<b>Goondiwindi</b> <br> <b>Prosperous service centre on the Queensland-New South Wales border.</b> <br> Located 805 km from Sydney and 362 km from Brisbane (or so the prominent and interesting road sign on the corner of the main street declares), Goondiwindi is 216 m above sea level. It is a rambling Queensland settlement which spreads for kilometres around the old Customs House on the banks of the Macintyre River.

The Pittsworth Post Office at the Folk Museum, Pittsworth

Pittsworth

<b>Pittsworth</b> <br> <b>Attractive and historic township south-west of Toowoomba.</b> <br> Located 169 km south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, 41 km south-west of Toowoomba and 518 m above sea-level, Pittsworth presents itself to the world as a town with lots of interesting buildings and places of historical importance. Unfortunately this presentation is not matched by the quiet reality of an attractive town of tree-lined streets where there are only a few interesting buildings.

The Bank of New South Wales entry point at Jondaryan Woolshed Tourist Complex.

Jondaryan - Places to See

<b>Jondaryan (including Acland)</b> <br> <b>A well constructed tourist attraction which recreates a 19th century Queensland rural township.</b> <br> Located 172 km west of Brisbane and 43 km from Toowoomba, Jondaryan is a superb example of a tiny, unimportant settlement exploiting its one famous and important old historical building and creating an entire tourism industry out of it.