Vantage Point
“I’m a travel writer who doesn’t want to go anywhere now,” says Sue Preston with a laugh. The busy Northcote-based travel writer and her partner, retired hydrologist Jim Elliott, both grew up in the country. They’d hankered for a weekender close to Melbourne for years, but started searching in earnest when they hit 70 and the lure of a stripped-back place to unwind in nature became irresistible.
Two years back they bought 40 hectares of an old sheep farm in Kilmore, an hour north of
