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Aboard the Santa Train 2: Watson to Perth
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 10 January 2012
Last week I shared the first half of my recent trip across the continent aboard the Indian Pacific train. Here are some pics from the second half of the journey...1. Watson (08:00, 9 Dec 2011)We pulled into this non-location, an arbitrary stopping place named after Australia's third prime minister, to find dozens of people waiting for us.
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Aboard the Santa Train 1: Sydney to Adelaide
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 3 January 2012
Happy New Year!Those of you with decent memories may remember me taking the Indian Pacific train from Sydney to Perth two years (and about 100 blog posts) ago.
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Going Nuclear in the Outback
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 19 January 2011
The Outback majors on crazy towns. Tiny communities, stranded in an inland sea of sand and scrub, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Yet even after the Martian landscape of Coober...
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10 Things to Know before Driving Outback Australia
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 12 January 2011
1: Farmers Don’t Like Pulling Your Camper Out of Their Road Outback Australia is a great place to drive a 4WD. If you know how to do it. When a...
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The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 7 January 2011
Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars in many a movie and...
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Seeing Stars in the Outback
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 4 December 2010
Weather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The great salt lakes, which sit...
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Oof! We're in Australia…
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 3 December 2010
[tweetmeme source=”@mummy_t” only_single=false]Like a lot of Londoners, I’ve always taken a sort of lugubrious, self-hating pride in coming from one of the world’s most expensive cities (third in 2008, seventeenth...
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Riding the Sun to the East Coast
Blog: Wanderlust - 9 June 2010
Stanley and Us Less than 200 km north of Alice Springs, we reached the Tropic of Capricorn, which meant warmer weather ahead. The road from Central Australia to the East Coast was full of long days driving hundreds of kilometers through a deep haze passing through small towns that had nothing more to offer than [...]
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Ways To Get Away From It All – Part 3: Campervan Fun in the Australian Outback
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 27 April 2010
This is the third post in Amy Cham’s guest post series.
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Menindee – The Place Where Dreams Dry Up & Die
Blog: Brooke vs. the World | RTW Travel Blog - 4 February 2010
It seemed almost magical. I finally had a way to coax Patrick into wanting to go on a random outback adventure, and it came in the form of a fisherman’s paradise. At least that’s what the booklet said. “Menindee – Photographers and fishermen take note!” (or something along those lines). It wasn’t a very long [...]
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Broken Hill Road Trip – A Taste of the Outback
Blog: Brooke vs. the World | RTW Travel Blog - 9 January 2010
For part of my recent holiday, I decided to go the non-traditional route here and avoid the beaches in hopes of getting a little taste of the Australian Outback. So, I went on a road trip with Patrick all the way out to the farthest Western reaches of New South Wales in order to visit an [...] Related posts:Menindee – The Place Where Dreams Dry Up & Die
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Indian Pacific 3: Cook to Perth
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 17 December 2009
The final chapter of my three-day journey from Sydney to Perth aboard the Indian Pacific, the train that traverses a continent...Friday 4 December 2009 10am, Cook
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Indian Pacific 2: Adelaide to Watson
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 12 December 2009
In which I continue the chronicle of my three-day journey from Sydney to Perth, via the mighty Indian Pacific transcontinental train...Thursday 3 December 2009
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Indian Pacific 1: Sydney to Broken Hill
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 4 December 2009
As a wise Australian philosopher once wrote, it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll. It’s also a long way from Sydney to Perth, especially if you catch the train.
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The Red Earthed Land
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 18 July 2009
Out in the far far way we wentAlong the dusty tracksTo where the sun beat down by dayAnd the sun slew back by nightOf an ancient land with clay red earth that white men never cameUntil the time of sailing ships that change the face of this great landA face that tweren't the same.But out there in the dusty red earth desert of the wildA dark man roamed with childer three and wife and familyThe tribe for that is what they wereLived freely off the landAnd tended it with care and loveAnd doused it with their pains
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Alice Springs - Camel Safari
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 8 July 2009
Saturday 17 September:After arriving in the Alice around noon, I did something that was on my "to do" list - went camel riding. Pyndan Camels had the best prices - so that decided me. I chose the Twilight Safari. Well not exactly chose - the other times were fully booked! As it turned out, the Twilight one was best because after the Safari was over, the camels had to be fed and we all took part.
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