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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 [...]
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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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The Kimberley – Hidden Treasure in Remote Australia
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 5 August 2009
From the saltwater Bardi culture, pristine beaches, rugged red cliffs of Cape Leveque and the multicultural city of Broome to the surreal rock scape of the Bungle Bungle beehives and the hidden waterfalls and palm oases of Echidna Chasm and Cathedral Gorge, the Kimberley is like no other place on earth. Located in the northern part of Western Australia, the Kimberley region is an extraordinary and remote part of Australia with some well known sights and many hidden treasures. Broome is often referred to as “the gateway to the Kimberley.” If ...
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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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Darwin 2006 - Galleries & Gardens
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 30 July 2009
Monday 19th June 2006After a late start to the day, I did a sightseeing tour with AAT Kings at 2.00PM.
