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Hawana - Is Tiwi For Hello
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 13 August 2009
Friday 23rd June 2006Hawana, how are you? Hawana is Tiwi for hello. This little moppet hid around the trees as we approached and peeked around and smiled shyly. His name is Bom Bom. which I was told means bottom.
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MIFFed film goers
Blog: Hackpacker - 9 August 2009
As the line to 10 Conditions of Love sprawled out the front of Melbourne's Town Hall and ran a full city block up to Russell St, China's decision to oppose the film's screening was looking like the best publicity the could hope for.
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Canberra: A Case of Over-Capitalisation?
Blog: Hackpacker - 7 August 2009
When Sydney and Melbourne tossed a coin to decide where to put the capital of the new nation, it landed on its side. The two rival metropolises had to settle for a capital that was exactly halfway between both of them.
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Melbourne Pt.2
Blog: Where is Rob? - 6 August 2009
My second visit to Melbourne was quite an eventful one involving 2 jobs, lots of Tennis, an art exhibition, as well as a 3 day stay in an Australian hospital with a suspected case of swine flu.I was staying back of the nunnery so was taking full advantage of the free food on offer there and stretching my budget as fair as humanly possible. Last time I was in Melbourne I was introduced to a [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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A Haphazard Birthday
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 August 2009
Heart thumping. Eyes sweating. Palms clenched. Girlfriend weeping. People staring. Lady smiling. Jaw gripped. Foot shuffling. Mind racing. We were checking in one hour before our scheduled departure, and the lady at the check-in desk was telling us we weren’t getting on the flight. Lady smiling. Palms clenched. We’d run the gauntlet up until now, phone [...]
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Gouraud: The Street and the General
Blog: Half - 28 July 2009
If you tell a taxi to take you to the Beirut neighborhood of Gemmazeh, they’ll drop you at the start of the Rue Gouraud – the main bar, restaurant and club packed street running through this noisy neighborhood, which somehow … Continue reading →
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June Crew Rosta.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 26 July 2009
When you have had your month of 'Standby', you start to go up in the Crew bidding process again. So in June 2009 Rebecca was 'bottom bid', so she did not bother to put any bids in.
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Tiwi Islands
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 23 July 2009
Friday 23rd June 2006100 kms north of Darwin the TIWI ISLANDS are Bathurst and Melville Islands. The Aboriginal population call themselves the Tiwi people. You can’t arrive on the islands unannounced and tour around – there are no facilities to do so. You must go with an organised tour or fishing group.
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Flight of the Cockheads
Blog: Trail of Ants - 21 July 2009
Have you ever pre-applied for a visa while on the road? If so, you’ll know they always say “don’t make travel plans until your visa is confirmed”. As always, when I was recently applying for New Zealand’s 23-month working holiday visa, I respectably scoffed at the small print. Six weeks to secure a working holiday [...]
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Kangaroo Island – Scenery That Will Blow You Away
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 19 July 2009
If Aussie wildlife and wilderness are your thing, then Kangaroo Island is definitely for you. Located southwest of Adelaide, the island is Australia’s third largest (after Tasmania and Melville Island). It is a great spot not only to experience Australia’s remarkable wildlife in its natural environment, but also to hike through untouched bush land. Once a shelter for the rogues and rapscallions of the British Empire, the locals now consist of koalas, platypus, echidnas, wallabies, sea lions, fairy penguins and the island’s own species of kangaroo. One third of South ...
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The Long Road to Melbourne
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 July 2009
It all started when we got to Townsville and thought maybe we should head back to Melbourne for a bit. We saw an advertisement all over town asking if anyone wanted to join a guy who was making the journey to Melbourne on Friday and would very much like it if someone other people would like to join him to save on money as well as share the driving. When we first saw the ad, I didn't think much [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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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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Townsville
Blog: Where is Rob? - 17 July 2009
When I booked my ticket to Townsville the travel agent said "Why do you want to go there, its a shit hole?" From that response I should have worked out it was probably wasn't the best place to go. When I got there I did however disagree with her, it wasn't a shit hole at all, it was just very very dull.I came here hoping to possibly find some work. Townsville is a bit of strange place to come and [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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The Fins of Glenelg
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 July 2009
Steven Spielberg has a lot to answer for. In directing the 1975 hit movie Jaws, he ensured a generation of kids couldn't take to the surf without worrying about a great white shark encounter.
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Airlie Beach
Blog: Where is Rob? - 16 July 2009
I stayed at Airlie Beach 3 nights in total. Once the night before the Whitsundays, the second and third nights after Whitsunday's. Didn't really get up to too much here other then sunbathing in the man made lagoon and then have a night out with the rest of the group on the first night out after the sailing trip. Was a cool little backpackers town full of people doing the Whitsunday's. That was [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Warrnambool in winter
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 15 July 2009
A winter weekend in Warrnambool might seem a strange choice for tropical heat lovers like us, considering the Antarctic winds that buffer this booming town in Victoria’s southwest. But on Tash’s advice, we packed raincoats, gloves and boots and braved the elements for a weekend away. The tourist brochures say Warrnambool is 3 hr and 15 [...]
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A Knights Trail: Two Years On
Blog: Trail of Ants - 15 July 2009
And so it was written, that a noble knight would renounce his legacy and set off on a great journey. He would venture through foreign lands, flicking morsels of exotic food into his mouth and drink from foreign goblets. He would sway with the largest forests, duck under rocks and dive under cover. Steeds would [...]
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Whitsundays
Blog: Where is Rob? - 14 July 2009
The Whitsundays are a group of islands just off the North East Coast of Australia towards the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef. Much like Fraser Island I did a 3 day/2 night sailing trip around the islands so I could see what this place was all about.I choose to do the eco tour of the islands. I am not really sure why it was an eco tour and when I asked the captain why this tour was an eco tour [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Local Knowledge
Blog: Trail of Ants - 11 July 2009
I say wolf, you say creek. I say Wolfe Creek, you say movie. I say Wolfe Creek the movie, you say backpackers. I say Wolfe Creek the backpacker movie, you say gruesome. I say Wolfe Creek the gruesome backpacker movie, you say murders. I say Wolfe Creek the gruesome backpacker murder movie, you say don’t [...]
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Agnes Waters
Blog: Where is Rob? - 10 July 2009
Today I checked out of my hostel around 10am. Went to the shop to buy some fruit. I then pottered down to the beach and watched the surf for an hour or so. After that I headed back to the hostel and read a bit of my book while swinging in a hammock in the midday sun. I eventually dozed off and when I woke up I ate an apple and read some more of my book. I gathered a few of my things and went back [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Video Tour: Lonely Planet's HQ
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 9 July 2009
Interested in seeing Lonely Planet's Melbourne offices? Here's an Orson Welles-inspired single-shot sequence up the many stairs of the Footscray offices of Lonely Planet by this out-of-breath FlipVideoist.Warning: It's not an award-winning production by an means, but you can see where some super coffee's made -- and a knock-out view of Melbourne up top.
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On Platform 2: The 8.05 to Adelaide!
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 9 July 2009
In 2007 I underwent a journey of discovery regarding interstate train travel in Australia.
