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RTW Day 7: The Great Ocean Road
Blog: Vagabond3 - 14 June 2010
Day 7 of our around the world trip, and we headed down to the South of Australia to drive the Great Ocean Road. Spoiler Alert: Jade found a dog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iFb4xCYps
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Playing it cool, Melbourne. Australia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 12 June 2010
At 11am on a Thursday morning we had expected Melbourne to be dead apart from the odd yummy mummy balancing a baby in one hand and a Miu Miu tote in the other. Maybe there would be a scattering of school kids smoking cigarettes and staring challengingly at any passersby whose eyes accidentally met theirs. [...]
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Melbourne: Rowdy Hostels, Tour Guides and Penguins
Blog: Vagabond3 - 11 June 2010
Our first day in Melbourne (pronounced Mel- Bun) started off a bit rough. Our hostel, Base St. Kilda Backpackers Hostel, is an all night party and we were woken up around 3am by twenty guys rapping, in unison, Eminem’s 8 mile. Needless to say, we were extremely tired when we woke up at 7am to [...]
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The City of Melbourne wants to give you a free tour
Blog: Vagabond3 - 10 June 2010
Picture this: We 3 vagabonds standing in the cold rain of Melbourne, our only plan to explore the city by foot with a trusty city map. Sounds like a fun adventure, but in reality it was… well, cold and rainy. We didn’t really know where to begin, so we made a quick stop at the [...]
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The Top 15 Sizzling Hot Beach Bodies from the Sexiest Beaches on Earth
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 25 May 2010
Is this your first time here? If so, and you are interested in the topics Love, Sex and Backpacking, Backpacking Cheaply, and Traveling Safely, you may wish to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read on as we count down the … Continue reading →
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The Great Ocean Road to Adelaide
Blog: Wanderlust - 19 May 2010
The 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road Surprise surprise, I’m posting less than a week since my previous post. I’ve spent more time at McDonald’s in the past three days than my entire life. More on that later. I left Melbourne a day earlier than I had planned when the two French guys I [...]
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Riding the Milky Way to Melbourne
Blog: Wanderlust - 14 May 2010
Business Section at North Bondi Beach The new mixtape has finally been digitally released by DJ Kingaling and Massid Acid (Ryguy and Me)! The new album called “Foreign Exchange” can be downloaded for free on the Mixtape II page. Nothing says the weekend like a fresh batch of music for your ears. Enjoy. These last few [...]
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My Favorite Australian Hostels
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 13 May 2010
Continuing on my post about my favorite New Zealand hostels, it’s time to talk about my favorite hostels in Australia. I’ll continue doing this throughout the year and, at the end of the year, will have a “Best Hostels of 2010” edition. Base St. Kilda (Melbourne) I’ve said in the past that Base is like the [...]
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Cafes of Melbourne 4: Southern Exposure
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 23 April 2010
Here's the final part of the online Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago, which I've reproduced here with a few tweaks and updates. This week, I head south to inspect the cafes between Melbourne's city centre and Port Phillip Bay...
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Cafes of Melbourne 3: East by Southeast
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 20 April 2010
Here's part three of the Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago. It's since been removed from the website it was written for, but I've reproduced and updated it here for your coffee-drinking needs. This week, I visit cafes of the inner east and southeast...
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Melboune…waiting waiting…
Blog: arnika round the world - 14 April 2010
After all of 2.5 hours of sleeping it was time to get up and get moving, drove in the dark already exhausted. After farewelling mum (not many friends see you off at that time of the morning), I jumped on the short haul flight across the tasmen on some budget airline codesharing with about 4 [...]
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Having a Laugh? Melbourne International Comedy Festival Venues Reviewed
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 2 April 2010
Every year in March-April, central Melbourne falls under the mirthful influence of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Roadtrip: The Great Ocean Road
Blog: Snaps and Flip Flops - 29 March 2010
Left Melbourne at 9 AM, returned at 2 AM. Hundreds of kilometers traveled with plenty of stops along the way. I can see why this is one, if not the most, popular drive in Australia.Surfer at Bell's Beach
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Melbourne Historical App: A Day on the Rails
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 March 2010
On Australia Day, Tuesday 26 January 2010, the rest of Australia had a day off. I worked, catching trains all over Melbourne's suburban rail network in order to take photos to accompany the text in my iPhone app, Melbourne Historical.
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Top 3 Cities in Australia for Nude Holidays aka Nacations
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 21 March 2010
There’s nothing quiet like the freedom of being able to take it all off and enjoy walking around your apartment/house naked. Those of you however who would like to take it to the next step and walk around naked with other people, here are some options that might help you release your kinky inner German: [...]
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First Timers Expectations of Australia
Blog: Vagabond3 - 19 March 2010
To say that I’ve experienced Sydney would be an understatement; I was given a truly once in a lifetime experience exploring the city in ways many of the natives haven’t. It was like a James Bond movie- the three of us were escorted from hotel to car to sea plane to boat all to just [...]
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Cafes of Melbourne 2: Northern Lights
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 March 2010
Coffee = Melbourne = coffee, OK? Here's the second instalment of the Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago. It's since vanished from the website it was written for, but is still of caffeinista interest. This week, I visit cafes of the inner north...
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Cheap Bike Rental Programs Going Global!
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 17 March 2010
In both my books - Green Earth Guide Traveling Naturally in France and Green Earth Guide Traveling Naturally in Spain - as well as this blog, I have highlighted the cheap and wonderful city bi
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St. Kilda: Sun, Sand, and Scary Clown Heads
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 17 March 2010
Winter weather in California is nothing to complain about, but stepping onto a plane in the dead of winter and getting off some hours later in the height of summer feels less like a plane trip and more like time travel. The flight to Australia is, of course, monstrously long, but the brain has a remarkable ability to quickly forget the sensation of passage of time.
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The Weekly Photo: Royal Botanical Gardens
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 12 March 2010
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Australia [...]
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Brian Thacker Interview – Funny ‘Possie’ Travel Writer
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 10 March 2010
Brian Thacker is a Travel Writer who thinks of silly travel ideas, such as turning up to numerous countries without a guidebook and actually acting on them. He then turns these experiences into a number of Funny Travel Books which are a great read. Actually, I’m a bit envious of him – he travels, writes, gains income [...]Brian Thacker Interview – Funny ‘Possie’ Travel Writer is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird Travel - The
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The Phillip Island Penguin Charade
Blog: Away Together - 3 March 2010
I told my family we should drive to the bottom of Australia and spend several days on Phillip Island mainly because of its star attraction: the Penguin Parade.
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Finding the Best and Worst in Daylesford
Blog: Away Together - 26 February 2010
Daylesford is a charming little community about an hour and a half north of Melbourne. Set around a lake and ringed by forests, it’s an oasis in the countryside where miles of grassland and gum trees all start to look the same and the country roads seem to go on forever.
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Year of the Tiger
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 14 February 2010
Tash, Roo and I headed into Melbourne’s CBD this morning to celebrate Chinese New Year: the Year of the (Metal) Tiger. For an agnostic, I’m quite superstitious about Chinese New Year. In 2008, the Year of the Rat, I wore an ox pendant in my earring for the entire year as I read this helped [...]
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Cafes of Melbourne 1: Caffeine and the City
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 11 February 2010
A few years ago I wrote a set of Melbourne cafe reviews for an online city directory, but cannily retained the copyright. The reviews seem to have vanished from that site now, but most of the fine cafes I covered are still doing a roaring trade.
