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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

The best 50 cents you can spend? Queensland’s ultra-cheap public transport fares revitalise travel for pleasure

Garry Reynolds and his partner, Selina Ellis, chat on the train from Nambour to Brisbane on their ‘budget day out’.
Garry Reynolds and his partner, Selina Ellis, chat on the train from Nambour to Brisbane for a ‘fantastic day’ that cost ‘bugger all’. Photograph: Ian Waldie

Garry Reynolds, 74, took his girlfriend on a moonlit stroll upon a boardwalk for their first date. Their second was a cruise. For Reynolds – who has survived four strokes and, like his sweetheart, Selina Ellis, endured traumatic loss – the romance has been a whirlwind.

“We’re like two teenagers going steady,” he says.

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