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Manly Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Manly, Australia
Australia - Manly
This is a top pick! ... and this is probably a good thing. The show might be fairly entertaining for tourists who won't see other parts of Australia, although the unnecessarily uncomfortable jolting doesn't add anything to the experience. However, as we had seen most of the ...
Christmas Down Under
This is a top pick! ... be able to work at Dendrite for 6 months. (You are only typically allowed to work for a single company for 3 months in Australia on a working holiday visa). They seemed enthusiastic about this and promised to get back the next day. The day after this ...
Australia - Manly
This is a top pick! ... were extremely cute - it was just a shame we couldn't grab them and cuddle them!! Back in Manly we picked up Andrews birthday cake (hand made with our personal selection of ice-cream and mix-ins by Cold Rock ice cream ...
Australia - Manly
This is a top pick! ... parents travelled up to Ettalong Beach to visit with distant relative Kathleen (whom we had stayed with when we first arrived in Australia). The following day we raced home from work in order to catch the ferry across to Sydney to meet with Andrew's ...
Australia - Manly
This is a top pick! ... combo. Now in the UK you may expect this to include nothing more than a chunk of beef and some scampi but in Australia they have a slightly different approach. Alongside the huge slab of cow there lay a crab, mussels, calimari and a whole octopus ...
Roadtrip Imminent
This is a top pick! ... times over the last few days and even the Harbour Bridge is sporting lights in the outline of a rugby ball. Rugby has taken Australia by storm. Even the railway staff are wearing the national colours, although I admit this may just be a coincidence! We ...
Australia - Manly
This is a top pick! ... up on every movie we had missed over the last year or so! We also spent time with Rachel, chatting about our exploits throughout Australia and just generally 'hanging out'. Rachel was alone for the first four weeks of her stay in Oz so we kept her busy ...
First Stop:Manly nr Sydney NSW
This is a top pick! ... with loads of live music and craft / food stalls. That is all for this installment. In a few days we look forward to starting to make our way around Australia, with a trip to Byron Bay imminent. I look forward to having more to report then. ...
Manly Beach...Riding the waves
This is a top pick! ... more people. Included in them of coarse were two Irish girls that were heading home to surprise everyone. They had been here in Australia for 7 months and only worked one. That sounds nice. In the middle of our conversation I figure out that we had ...
My first week in Australia
... unfortunately just missed. Then we went out for dinner and met up with Amy and Kate, at a restaurant across the road from Manly beach. During the week, we explored the area, going for walks along the gorgeous beaches, caught the ferry across to the opera ...
Anzac Day Craziness
... the west and the east of the town. Sydney is also just a short ferry ride away. The highlight of Manly, however, was that we were there on Anzac Day, Australia's national "get drunk and gamble" day. Of course, this is not what Anzac Day is meant to be. ...
Settling in Nicely
... was another write off but very very funny. Jill is leaving tonight so we get to recover until the next Durham lot come. Australia and Australians What people often say their first impression of Australia is is that it is so big. On the map it is ...
Me and My Man in Manly
... I think the beaches are pretty damn good here too! In fact of all the beaches I have seen since I've been on leave - Australia has the best! As I'm thinking this a voice comes over the loudspeak from the lifesaver's tower: As the tide goes out the rips ...
Ferries and fun
... a big tree before we headed back to the Wharf. Since we had our 4 attraction pass cards we felt we should go visit the Manly Oceanworld Aquarium to see yet more fishes. Since we and had lost all Andrews Sydney Aquarium photos I was on major fish photo ...
Harbour Lights
Today we took the ferry over to Manly, a popular beach town near Sydney full of shops and cafes. Not to mention people. We took the ferry that carried 1000 people per boat back and forth between Manly and Sydney, and ...
Picturesque Manly
... centre disappear behind the twists of the bay. The town sits on the very edge of Sydney harbour. This gives Manly two promenades, one facing the city and the other facing the ocean. These are connected by the wide street known as the ...
Manly and the Opera House Doors?
... were extremely friendly and pointed out the sites and filled us in on local knowledge. On the entire trip all across Australia we have run into the nicest locals who always are ready to do some voluntary tour guiding and are interested in hearing ...
Mixed bag!
... this week, it has gone from 19 to 32 back to 19 again but when the sun shines it is lovely! As we have been in Manly for nearly a month we are classed as 'more than a tourist' so consequently have been told where the secret beach is!! We can't ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
... in a Grand Prix. I actually felt car sick for the first time in my life!! We stayed in a great location in central Manly equidistant from both beaches. We saw the sunset from the Steyne and then the sunrise (at 6am)...... We did ...
Sunshine, Spiders & Ciders
... be good but the animals are a bit caged in, according to Lonely Planet, then dropped off people at a few more places and arrived an Manly! It was a two minute walk to the beach and it was just so hot! No breeze at all, white sand again and swooping waves ...
The Flipin Weather
... to the beach have a surf, game of cricket and all that but most of the time we end up in the Steyne (big pub in manly) and play Extreme Hunter 2, an arcade hunting game which we have all become experts at. We were even talking about going Kangaroo Hunting ...
Manly-wood
... , an Aquarium and indoor wildlife centre, before deciding that we'd prefer to spend the first few moments of 2010 watching the fireworks from Manly's side of the bay. Rather than have to spend the whole day saving a spot close to the action, we took a cab ...
Es weihnachtet "sehr"
Dieses Weihnachten versprach uns von Anfang an etwas ganz besonderes zu werden, jedenfalls sollten wir beide es so in dieser Form noch nie erlebt haben. Erstmal ist die Vorweihnachtszeit ohne Schneematsch, Minusgrade und glitzernd leuchtende ...
Pommys are bad omens - when racing anyway!
... in my element out on the sea again, kathryn fell asleep!! Other than that we popped into Brisbane again and were generally sociable in Manly - not a lot else got done and we decided to head a bit further south for some real beaches as it was going to ...
I'm coming to a premature end to my stay ...
... after. Should be fun. On Tuesday I moved (very hung over from the night before) across the water in Sydney harbour to Manly. I've been staying at the Manly Beach Hut the last few days hoping to learn how to surf but unfortunately not having the ...
Christmas and New Year
Pretty late entry but the last three months has been 'fully hectic'!!! Christmas in Manly was a little bit of a let down purely because of the weather. The weather has simply let us down whenever we didn't want it to. Everyday sat behind reception ...
Sydney side up
This probably isn't the best time of year to visit the southern half of Australia, just as it isn't the best time to visit NZ, but once we crossed the Tasman sea and landed in Sydney, it felt like a world away. The sun was shining (I know, it's not ...
First Impressions
... So what did I do on my second day? Yesterday I went to meet Jaime, a friend of my friend David. She lives in Manly Beach** a bit north of Sydney. The place was beautiful even on a rainy winter day, with lovely neighborhoods centered ...
There Goes the Snow and here comes the Sun.
... the Ozzy life more (having time to enjoy the beach) as she was doing 12 hour days everyday and never got to enjoy what Australia is all about. Good decision, I reckon. Time is flying very quick on this trip and is almost a year since Ben and I ...