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Sydney, Australia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 30 September 2009
While we were camping in the Outback, Sydney was under siege of dust storms from the Red Center. We got there just as the last of them was blowing in, and then the skies cleared and the sun made Sydney Harbour sparkle.
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Free Stuff to do in Sydney
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 27 September 2009
Besides being Australia’s largest city, Sydney is also its most visited. (and, contrary to popular belief, it is not the country’s capital!) Sydney has an incredible variety of attractions and sights to see and, while Sydney can be pricey, its great outdoors, stunning scenery, and a few attractions are free. So when you find yourself [...]
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Alice Springs, Australia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 27 September 2009
They don't call it the Red Center for nothing. The three hour flight from Melbourne took us to the desert town of Alice Springs--literally in the middle of nowhere. Everything was covered in red dust and the river through town was a dry bed. Alice isn't much to speak of itself, but it's the launch point for excursions around the Outback including the largest rock in the world: Ayer's Rock, or by the original Aboriginal name (sort of), Uluru. We booked a three day, two night camping trip with The Rock tour company to see more.
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Who is Sam Knott?
Blog: Hackpacker - 25 September 2009
As you're driving from Melbourne towards Warburton, you might notice your health being toasted by a Father Christmas-like gent by the side of the road.
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Sydney dust storm images
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 24 September 2009
Waking up and seeing the sky a burnt orange colour is a rather scary prospect. Due to work being stupid busy this week, and needing to be in at the crack of dawn I didn’t take the time to grab my camera and take some shots, but thankfully plenty of others did. Some are below. Lots more [...]
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Melbourne, Australia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 21 September 2009
For the most part we have hit the ground running when we've arrived in new places, but our start in Melbourne was a slow one. Our flight from Auckland didn't get in until almost midnight and the following day was a soaker.
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Sydney top 10 on a budget
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 21 September 2009
Sydney is a huge vibrant city but after all it was surprisingly manageable as all major attractions are easily reachable, a large number free and set around its beautiful harbor. It is for certain a great place to dive into the Oozy cultures: great beaches, bars, entertainments, outdoor activities and sunshine, even in ‘winter’ we got a fantastic week of warm and sunny days. Here, what we enjoyed most of it:
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Melbourne to Sydney: the start of our coastal roadtrip
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 21 September 2009
We already spent a week in the Victorian bustling and multicultural capital city, Melbourne, just before leaving for New Zealand, so it was time to pick up our parked van and start to hit the road on the conquer of Australia East Coast. We decided to proceed along the Princes Hwy (A1) which carves its way through the 1100 kilometres of coastline that separates Melbourne to Sydney, the two largest cities in Australia. We were not on a hurry but it was getting chilly down here and our desire to reach the hot Tropical North was growing anxiously inside us.
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Southern Star dimming
Blog: Hackpacker - 17 September 2009
In 2008 Melbourne's skyline saw the building-up of a large Ferris Wheel in the re-vamped Docklands.
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Enchanting spots: Sydney Opera House
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 16 September 2009
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most beautiful and unique buildings in the world (in my book). Designed by Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect, the Opera House was built on a spit of land called Bennelong Point that juts into the breathtaking Sydney Harbour. Opened in 1973, the instantly recognisable clam-like structure has [...]
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B&Bs: Quaint or Frustrating?
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 11 September 2009
I've stayed in a lot of bed and breakfast accommodation in my time, most of it in the countryside within a day's drive from Melbourne. Much of it has been very pleasant, with friendly owners and atmospheric decor.
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Alice Springs and Australia's Invisible People
Blog: 501 Places - 5 September 2009
Alice Springs in mid-summer gets pretty hot. The sun is directly overhead at midday and casts no shadow. It's a busy town and an important one, as you would imagine with no neighbours for hundreds of miles in any direction (and thousands in some).
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Trails of the Unexpected
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 September 2009
I stare at the newspaper. It wasn’t me. I gawp at the television. It wasn’t me. I trawl through the internet. It wasn’t me! I listen to the radio, podcasts, and conversations on the bus. It WASN’T me! At least — I hope it wasn’t me? I didn’t know much about Asia before I scribbled [...]
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A Wild World: Australia’s unique and dangerous wildlife
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 3 September 2009
Crocs, koalas, kangaroos, that’s only few of the exotic animals we were looking forward to come across on our journey in Down Under and we weren’t disappointed. Australia has such an incredible biodiversity of animals that in Europe we could only watch on telly. This land has been so isolated for centuries that only here you are able to find certain species, even the swans are different, they are all black.
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Australia by Boat
Blog: Hackpacker - 3 September 2009
More travellers are looking to go flightless either for green reasons or just to slow down and enjoy their trip.
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Our Van-tastic Australia Roadtrip
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 31 August 2009
Here we go; the long-awaited part of our trip was truly undertaking a grand drive in the so unfamiliar and so acclaimed Down Under land. As the rest of our whole journey around this world, little planning was made and all we knew was the roughly 6’000 km we would have drove along Australia East Coast, easy we thought. Nothing prepared us to what we would stumble upon, such diverse and spectacular sceneries, the most epic roadtrip we ever accomplished.
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Out of Luck
Blog: Hackpacker - 30 August 2009
When I had to write about definitively Melbournian experiences for Lonely Planet's the City Book I included this:
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A Stroll Along Australia’s West Coast
Blog: Trail of Ants - 24 August 2009
The beach was pale and despite being daubed with colourful swimwear, it was lacking and hollow. It was everything a beach should be; sparse and coated in sun like treacle smothers toast. Reb and I reached a mutual agreement to leave, without the need for fall away words. We’d replaced a blown-out tyre, filled the [...]
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Super-awesome Sydney
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 24 August 2009
Sydney, Australia: considered one of the most livable cities in the world?Super-awesome Sydney is happily produced by The Indie Travel Podcast, proud winners of Lonely Planet's "Best Podcast 2009" -- Check out our free podcast in iTunes, free online travel magazine, or have the
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Shepparton
Blog: Where is Rob? - 23 August 2009
Shepparton is a little Australian town 2 hours north of Melbourne and not much ever really seems to happen in Shepp. The only reason I came to Shepp was to spend some time with my main man Dunk who is over in Oz playing footy. The plan was to crash on his floor for about a week before I made the journey up to Sydney to find work. However I ended up staying nearly 2 and a half weeks as well as [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Proof that Australians are harder workers than Brits
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 22 August 2009
Having worked overseas, one of the questions I often get asked is where do you work harder, in The UK or Australia? The opinion if it is a Brit asking is that Aussie’s are lazing on the beach most of the time and if it is an Aussie asking, they are convinced [...]
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Tucked in a Wave in Byron Bay, Australia
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 18 August 2009
I've been told that "You don't just arrive in Byron Bay. Byron Bay 'happens' to you." For some, there is no place like it on earth and for others it's an over-priced coastal town where it can take hours to find a parking spot. Regardless of popular opinion, it's a spot where there are good times to be had.
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Clubbing in the Pacifique
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 August 2009
There's something about islands, and the tiny airports that serve them.
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Burqini Fever!
Blog: Half - 13 August 2009
In my post on Sour, I included a photo of a young Muslim girl going swimming, covered and veiled – a concept completely foreign and interesting to me. And you know how sometimes when you learn something new, it somehow seems to pop up everywhere??? So here’s what I’ve found out about Muslim swimwear, which [...]
