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Berri
Travel Blogs from Berri, Australia
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One more Week
... today, I am going to be ready to sleep the whole 14 hours from Sydney to Los Angeles. pray for this final week in Australia. Love and God Bless, Sarah Oh, if you want to hear some of the music I have been listening to, pick up the Hillsongs ...
I picked my own Orange Juice
... some really good chocolate. The US gets nothing in terms of Cadbury. (the eggs at Easter pale in comparison). Cadbury is made in Australia, so I am trying more types of Cadbury chocolate than I knew existed. I know I am going to be bringing a lot home ...
8 weeks into the trip
... week to sit down at a computer and update you all on what has been happening. I have just over two weeks remaining in Australia. It's one of those can and can't believe it situations. Last week was spent in Adelaide with Raelene and two of her kids ...
Hello from Berri!
... Greek dancing presentation. Some of the girls I have met asked me to come. It should be exciting. School is a bit different in Australia. At recess, everyone is required to wear a hat. This follows the "no hat, no play" rule. The sun in Australia ...
No Worries
... 30 people came over to celebrate with us and got a kick out of the evening. Days have been filled with speding time at Berri Primary School and Glossop High School. What is the most valuable thing I have learned in the schools? Kids just want someone ...
First week
... Hope you all are having a great summer! I love and Miss you all! Aussie Sarah P.S. Here is my mailing address. I've heard it takes mail about 7-10 days to arrive Sarah Simmons c/o Kevin Hull P.O. Box 1343 Berri, 5343 South ...
Hello from Oz
Hello from Oz! Well, after 20 hours in the sky and 2 on the road, I have made it to Berri, South Australia. I have been to orientation in Sydney and am now with my host family. Berri is 15 hours ahead of central time at home, so I am still pretty tired ...
Australian Summer Missionaries at the Opera House
... on Wednesday and I am off to Glossop Senior High in a few minutes for a student coffee hour. Please pray for rain. South Australia hasn't seen a good rain for almost a year. All of Australia is in a drought. Some areas in Melbourne have only three ...
Day 62 in the Big Brother House
Day 62 in the Big Brother house... I mean the Berri Backpackers. The ritual of life in the hostel can be just like Big Brother (that's Big Boss for our Indian readers!) without the cameras. The daily churn of gossip, bitching, tears, romance, ...
Berri Backpackers
... back yard, but ran off before the owner could ask him what he was doing. His intentions are still unknown. Welcome to Berri, Riverland, South Australia. This was the TV news bulletin last night. As you can tell not a lot happens in Berri. The place is ...
Escape From Berri Prison
... heavy-going. The Greek supervisor mentioned in the previous blog entry has major problems with the English language despite living in Australia for 20 years. The Greeks live in close-nit communities and speak only Greek to each other. He never ...
The Bad Week
... to the only Indian restaurant in the Riverland to celebrate. The happiness lasted 48 hours. The very day that the previous owner left Australia, it broke down. Marie arrived back from work and the car died, hot and smoking, in the car park. I won’t ...
Aborigines Stole our Bacon
... the same section of the Venn diagram, in terms of general public opinion, as travellers would at home. This problem however is totally Australia’s making. I mean, they were here first. For at least 45,000 years. That’s a long time. When the ...
The Riverlands South Australia
... I sorted out about a kilo of almonds from what they gave me. Did you know that most of Australia's almonds come from here? I didn't. Also, the Berri Estate winery is the largest in the southern hemisphere, and they say the Riverland produces more wine ...
Berri Country, Home of the Orange
Even though we had planned only to travel around South Australia, we realized it would be a pity not to drive just another hundred clicks and visit Mildura with its paddle steamers and houseboats. By lunch time Monday, we arrived at Murray Bridge ...
Leeton to Berri
Hay Balranald Mildura on the Murray - flooded. Pioneers Park, Chaffey Bros history Renmark ...
A country of contrasts
... , many dead trees in the water. The Murray is SO important for food production, the stats of how much of Australia's food comes from this area are surprising. We were also surprised to read that 86% of SA residents have some dependence on ...
When I hit a Kangaroo with the car.
When I hit a Kangaroo with the car. The clock is around 1:30 am and I have just finish work. I got around 30 minutes travel before I will get home. I was tired after I have work for more than ten hour and I really need to go to the bathroom. Not the ...
Camping at Murray River National Park
Just got back from spending four nights at the Murray River National Park. It's about 240 kms East of Adelaide and we found a campsite right on the banks of the River Murray. Again, we were the only people on the whole campsite and spent a lovely few ...
From Pinnaroo to Loxton S .A
Having crossed the border into SA we travelled to Pinnaroo Here we stayed the night at a rest area. We visited the Musuem . Whish we found very interestin and well set out . They had a very well set up Machinery section but what interested us most ...
More contrasts
... room to read all the brochures we'd collected, type the blog and check out the Austar sports channels. Back to Berri - gave the GPS girl a full charge and firmware upgrade and she is happy again...phew. Quiet night with dinner at the ...
Sunday and everything close and emty.
The 2 geman guys have to stay 2 years far away from home. Australia it's not a god spot to get a work place for good tradesmen like them. I don't like to see animals like this snake. The last lonely ...
Homeward bound
We start off for home about 10.00, first stop Berri. Lunch on the road and arrive about 3.15 pm. The Caravan Park is very clean and tidy, on the side of the Murray river, with a heated pool that we intend to try when the Sun gets a little lower in ...
Yes we have left
Hello again, as the title suggests, we have left home and made it to the farm last night after departing at approx 6pm, arrived just after 8.30pm. Had a good run although left blinker on caravan was playing up, have fixed it this morning.Found ...
Planning, Packing, Pondering
5.10pm Picked up Mikayla and Sarah (M&S) from school and my fishing rod (one of them) from Taddy (Andy and Kymbo's mate from Mayne). Dad and Joyleen called in for morning tea and we had a cuppa and sang Happy Birthday to Melissa. Still heading ...
Luverly Loxton
Loxton, another lovely town on the Murray. We decided on the way to give the National Park a miss and stay in a Caravan Park on the river, the main reason was that they hired out canoes and we fancied a wee paddle on the river. Spent the first day ...
The Big Orange!
The Big Orange! Unfortunately it was closed, so we couldn't get very near to it. Still, this is our second "Big Thing" after The Big Rocking Horse, so it was still pretty ...
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