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Sovereign Hill: New Gold Mountain Remixed
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 8 November 2009
Lola Montez and I have a history. In 1855 she scandalised Victoria’s polite society by performing her saucy spider dance across the colony.
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Barbecue at Hanging Rock
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 2 November 2009
Partaking in a barbecue at Hanging Rock, was I in any danger of vanishing into the ether like those poor schoolgirls in Peter Weir's classic film?
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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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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 min [...]
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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.
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Is Bendigo in China?
Blog: Hackpacker - 2 July 2009
Last weekend I hopped the train to Bendigo, a regional Victorian town best known for its 19th century goldrush that drew prospectors from all over the world. A large group of diggers came from Guandong in China’s south.
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Yarra Glen: Cheesy, But in a Good Way
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 22 June 2009
I've just returned from a couple of days in Yarra Glen, researching its attractions for a mini-guide to be published in The Age.
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Melbourne's Cultural Capitol
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 12 June 2009
Don't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you got 'til it's goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot
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Literally Melbourne
Blog: Hackpacker - 24 May 2009
This weekend saw the opening of the Emerging Writers' Festival, a uniquely Melbourne event that was created to showcase "the best writers you haven't
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Dandenong Ranges: The Hills are Alive!
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 24 May 2009
I'm standing in a clearing about three-quarters the way up a steep slope in the Dandenong Ranges National Park east of Melbourne, and I've just startled a wallaby.
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In the Loop
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 15 May 2009
“I'll have to call back, I’m going into a tunnel!”How often do you hear this spoken into a mobile phone when travelling through Melbourne’s City Loop? Too often, probably.
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Geelong: Seaplanes & Wooden Horses
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 9 May 2009
On Wednesday afternoon, I went up in a seaplane for the first time, circling high over Corio Bay and the city of Geelong.
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Brack is back
Blog: Hackpacker - 6 May 2009
John Brack made me move to Melbourne. His iconic painting, Collins St 5pm, takes you into his view of the city as he waited for his friend to knock-off work.
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Castlemaine by Pod
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 April 2009
The problem with imagining the gold rush era in regional Victoria is one of the imagination: how do you revive the exciting chaos of those days within the peaceful, settled scenery of today?
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Phillip Island: The Child Within
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 29 March 2009
Where is a handy niece or nephew when you want a good reason to indulge your inner child?
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Marvellous Melbourne: My Favourite Things
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 March 2009
With all the international travel I've done over the past year, it's easy to forget that my home town, Melbourne, is a popular tourist destination in itself.
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Victorian Bushfires
Blog: round the world - the other way - 10 February 2009
I spent last Christmas with eight other people in the pretty town of Marysville in the Yarra Valley. Yesterday, I heard the news that the town was almost completely destroyed in the Victorian bush fires over the weekend, with only 15 to 20 homes escaping the blaze. Around half a dozen people are reported dead, [...]
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Train of Thought
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 3 February 2009
Two years ago I took the overnight train from Melbourne to Sydney for the first time.
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Getting Away From It All
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 22 January 2009
Last year Narrelle and I pioneered a new travel concept (at least, for us): the 'technology detox' vacation.
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Wild in the Country
Blog: round the world - the other way - 6 January 2009
A Happy New Year to one and all! Since I last blogged, Christmas and New Year have been and gone, but we’re still in Melbourne. Although now we are out of the hostel and house and pet sitting for a family in the suburbs. We have managed to get out of town a couple of times, [...]
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Close Encounter of the Sculptural Kind
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 4 December 2008
As any Australian travel editor knows, there's something enormously alluring about international travel.
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Passage to Sunshine
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 3 September 2008
It has to be admitted - international travel gets all the sexy press. When it comes to leaving home, it seems, 'more distant' = 'more exotic'.
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Shadowing Ned Kelly
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 28 April 2008
When you've had enough of travelling to tick off major landmarks, travelling to a theme becomes attractive. Whether it's an itinerary built around food, history or a love of Elvis, a theme provides a "shaping mechanism" for the journey, livening it up and adding interest. There's also the fun of piecing together a puzzle as the fragments of the theme come together, creating understanding.
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