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HOT – Old Town Kitchen – Shop 221, McWhirters Centre, Brunswick St Mall, Fortitude Valley
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 29 September 2011
Back on the streets to see how Brisbane fares with regards to its Malaysian cuisine scene, Old Town Kitchen in the Brunswick St mall was our latest find and it’s bold, but safe, to say that this place might be a nose in front of the rest we’ve seen so far. No frills seems to [...]
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HOT: The Wine Bar Restaurant, Yering Station, 38 Melba Hwy, Yarra Glen
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 29 September 2011
Fancy a day out in the country? In just 45 minutes from the city you can be out in the vineyards of the Yarra Valley. One of the most popular wineries in the Yarra Valley is Yering Station. It’s the first winery established in Victoria and is definitely worth a stop for the cellar door/art [...]
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Travel Itinerary – 48 Hours in Sydney
Blog: Landlopers - 29 September 2011
Our first introduction to Australia came at the end of a fifteen hour flight to Sydney. Our Australian schedule was a busy one and we only had two days to spend exploring this great harbor town. I knew it wouldn’t be enough time, but I...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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HOT: The Commoner, 122 Johnston St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 28 September 2011
The Commoner is one of my local favourites – great food, reasonable prices, friendly service and lots of different spaces depending on your dining needs, from intimate couples tables to the outdoor courtyard to upstairs private dining room. My most recent visit to The Commoner was for Sunday lunch. I reckon Sundays are the best days [...]
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William Dampier, Pirate & Explorer
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 28 September 2011
Everyone loves a pirate, so here's a profile of a pirate who gave his name to a Western Australian town.
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HOT: Demetri’s Feast, 141 Swan St, Richmond
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 27 September 2011
Oh Demetri’s Feast. If only you weren’t so small. If only your food wasn’t so good. If only your service wasn’t so friendly. If only you weren’t so cool. Then it’d be easier to visit you all the time. Demetri’s Feast was crowned Melbourne’s best breakfast in The Age’s Cheap Eats 2010 and that accolade [...]
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Voting for the New Seven Wonders – A Case for Uluru
Blog: Landlopers - 27 September 2011
A couple of months ago I wrote about the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition that is currently underway. The effort follows on the heels of the New 7 Wonders project that, while somewhat flawed, was very successful. One can argue about having a voting...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Desert Oasis – Kings Canyon Resort Experience
Blog: Landlopers - 27 September 2011
I’m not going to lie, getting to Kings Canyon from Alice Springs was a bit of an event. I guess I’m just a soft city mouse, but the two hours of driving on corrugated, teeth shattering dirt roads was a bit much. But that introduction...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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HOT – Ole Restaurant, Shop B12 Little Stanley St, Southbank
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 26 September 2011
Only a couple of weeks since opening, Ole Spanish tapas restaurant at Southbank seems to have already made quite a name for itself. With great tasty food, smiley friendly service and a beautiful outlook, it’s no surprise that tongues around town are madly wagging already. Ole’s opening week couldn’t be timelier – smack bang in the [...]
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Surfing Safari: Hawaii, Costa Rica, & Australia
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 September 2011
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HOT: Fringe Furniture, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 26 September 2011
Melbourne Fringe Festival is on now until 9 October 2011 and one of the regular parts of the eclectic program is the free Fringe Furniture exhibition. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Dancing in the Dark: Small Solutions to Big Problems’. Basically, this translates to design that’s smart, green, sustainable and beautiful by designers, architects, [...]
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HOT: Queen Margaret, 356 Queens Pde, North Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 25 September 2011
The pizzeria Queen Margaret is not named as a reference to QEII’s sister, but to Queen Margherita of Savoy, the first Queen of the united Italy and for whom the magherita pizza was named. Queen Margaret boasts eighteen (!) pizza varieties on its chalkboard menu, spearheaded by not just one but three riffs on the [...]
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Boat Tourism – Seeing the Other Side of a City
Blog: Landlopers - 23 September 2011
I love exploring new cities; finding hidden alleyways and cool shops are some of the best travel experiences anyone can have. One of the best ways to learn more about a city though is by leaving it, sort of. Exploring a city from the water...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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HOT – Max Brenner – Shop 1.1 and 1.2, Stanley St Plaza, Southbank
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 22 September 2011
Ok, so Max Brenner and his wicked stores don’t need much by the way of introduction, so I’m just gonna tell it how it is. There’s always a queue, if not 10 or so deep it’s well out the door, particularly in the evenings. There’s a general lack of order and grace in the whole [...]
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HOT: Ilona Staller, 282 Carlisle St, Balaclava
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 21 September 2011
I can’t cope with Melbourne’s growing trend for restaurants that don’t take bookings (too uncertain, too impatient, too hungry). But I really wanted to have dinner at Ilona Staller. What to do? Answer – dispatch my Balaclavan friends R and A to plonk themselves at the bar at 6:30pm on a Saturday night while I [...]
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Part II – Off-Roading in Australia – My Campervan Road Trip Through the Red Centre
Blog: Landlopers - 21 September 2011
Continued from yesterday Part II It wasn’t just the lack of paved roads that scared me, it was the uncertainty of the condition of the roads on which I knew we would have to drive for several hundred kilometers before we reaching the Kings Canyon...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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HOT: Small Block, 130 Lygon St, East Brunswick
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 20 September 2011
Small Block is a cafe particularly well suited to the urban professional/hip and arty/young parents demographic of East Brunswick. To whit: attention to coffee – the blackboard shows the single origin bean of the day and gives a description of its particular qualities; an extensive all-day breakfast menu which has the locals lining up on [...]
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Off-Roading in Australia – My Campervan Road Trip Through the Red Centre
Blog: Landlopers - 20 September 2011
Part of the condition of my trip to Australia’s Red Centre was that we travel around in a Britz Campervan. The idea was to replicate the trip Andrew Evans, the world famous travel writer and digital nomad, took around the Northern Territory. Since I won...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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HOT: Victoria in a Bento Box, Matteo’s Restaurant, 533 Brunswick St, North Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 19 September 2011
The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival doesn’t just run events for two weeks in March – the rest of the year they promote food and wine with themes and events such as the Spring Graze. The Spring Graze is a gathering of more than 60 events throughout September across Victoria, all with the theme of [...]
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A Festival Like Alice 2
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 19 September 2011
As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm currently in Alice Springs for the annual Alice Desert Festival. I'd already done some dot painting and taken in an outdoor premiere of a new play; now here's what happened the next day.Music in the gorge
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HOT – Ipoh Laksa Malaysian Kitchen – 738 Main St, Kangaroo Point
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 19 September 2011
Continuing on my quest to devour as much Malaysian cuisine as humanly possible (thanks to Malaysia Kitchen Australia), Ipoh Laksa in Kangaroo Point was the most recent venue to have the pleasure of watching me and some friends scoff, groan and visibly expand our waistlines over what was a Malaysian feast of epic proportions, great [...]
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The Weekly Photo: Sunset in Australia
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 18 September 2011
Sunset in the outback of Australia Heading here? Book your travel using the links below and help support this website and keep it running: Cheap Flights | Travel insurance | Hotels | Hostels |Guidebooks | 50 Adventure Tours under $995 ©Nomadic Matt's Travel Site.
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HOT: Plumm Wine Glass Experience, Taste of Melbourne 2012, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 18 September 2011
Did you visit Taste of Melbourne this weekend? The exhibition can be pretty overwhelming, what with the huge crowds of people and the number of exhibitors and restaurants participating. So this year I restricted myself to a quick whip around the stalls that I was interested in (such as Yarra Valley Dairy, Gundowring, Enni) and [...]
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The Port of Fremantle {Photo Junket}
Blog: The Travel Project - 18 September 2011
Freo as the locals like to call it is Perth's cooler more chilled out cousin. Located only 20kms south of Perth, Fremantle can feel a world away from the city of Perth.
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A Festival Like Alice 1
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 September 2011
I'm on my very first visit to the Northern Territory, and I've gone right to the centre of Australia - Alice Springs. In a few hours on Thursday morning I was transported from a chilly tram stop on Bourke Street, Melbourne, to the hot dry red-dust environment of Alice Springs. And all without producing a passport.
