Mildura, Australia Travel Blogs

Bad things happen in threes
Jan 19, 2004 (2 photos)

... if I wanted to buy them - I thought it was great service. By Friday my new card still hadn't arrived so while in Mildura I checked at the bank there what the problem was and discovered that a new card had never been ordered and that it takes a minimum ...

Really home
Feb 1, 2005

... being formulated. New ideas. Working in the snowfields. Working on a resort up the East Coast. Going to the UK. Travelling in Australia. As fate would have it, I got myself an awesome job without even trying. It didn't quite beat getting a job whilst ...

Pre-departure trips
Jan 5, 2004 (5 photos)

... . So many stories have come out of trips to Towong that I couldn't miss my last opportunity. At around 600km from Mildura, Betto's place is further than a trip to Melbourne. Leaving on Boxing Day afternoon I took the back roads through New South Wales ...

Van Wagga Wagga naar Mildura
Aug 13, 2006

's ochtends met een fikse kater weer in de auto gestapt richting Mildura... dat moesten we nu toch wel redden. 's avonds waren we redelijk in de buurt van Mildura toen we een rest-stop zagen zo'n 2km van de weg af. Toen we er kwamen stond er al een oude ...

Middle of ... nada
Jun 24, 2008 (13 photos)

... te recomiendan que te lleves un bidon extra de gasolina para que no te pudras en medio de las aridas y secas llanuras.... Mildura, God weet waarom wij hiernaartoe zijn gekomen, origineel is het wel want we zijn de enige toeristen hier. Veel valt er ...

Fruit Picking!
Jan 5, 2007 (3 photos)

Hello! Didn't last very long in Mildura im afraid.....not enough work and bugger all to do there.  There were so many backpackers there that the farmers didnt have enough work to go around everyone so wasn't working as much as i wanted to.& ...

raindrops keep falling on my head
Jan 19, 2008

... raining - so we were right all along and the clouds have followed us here too! We are about to be hailed as raingods in Australia. Mildura also known as sunraysia - not many of those around today. As well as the puddles outside we have a few in the tent ...

les coquillettes (et autres disparitions)
Feb 4, 2006

Et oui les coquillettes n'existent pas ici!! c'est bizarre, non??? c'est pas que ca soit un grand manque mais je comprends vraiment pas pourquoi ca n'existe pas...en koi c'est typiquement europeen?opu francais..c'est que j'ai jamais fait attention si en ...

mad boyracers
Jan 18, 2008

... apparently - and it takes us a little further towards our next big target - Sydney which we should reach in time for the Australia day celebrations next weekend- parties everywhere so they say! Todays drive is just about 2 hours - so not too taxing for a ...

Plotting and Planning
Apr 18, 2009

It's been a year in the planning pipeline. That is, since my last birthday atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge where I decided that the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia would be the venue for my 30th birthday celebrations. Everywhere I look, people are ...

Mildura
Mar 22, 2004 (1 photos)

The main reason for stopping off at Mildura was to visit Heathers brother David and spouse Jill who live just out of Mildura at Redcliffs. We had a great social visit and caught up on tent repairs and other maintenance jobs. Redcliffs is also home to an ...

Picking the grapes forever
Jan 15, 2006

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Work Time
Sep 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... . It was an old red double decker bus, deck out wiht lights, music and drinking on the bus!! He drove us to a few bars in Mildura, we got to meet s bunch more of our fellow house mates and partied with Bruno, Vince, and Dean! It was a great night! and a ...

Update Mildura
Oct 19, 2005 (21 photos)

So this is my first actual entry on this website but we'll see what we can do. This little town of Mildura doesn't contain much in the way of entertainment so as backpackers we do alot of it ourselves. This round of pictures will show you what some fun ...

Fruit Picking (english)
Mar 5, 2006 (15 photos)

... this I have enought money to travel for more than one month and to discover (at least) the wonderful Australia. But it's gonna be hard to leave Mildura because I met so many nice people (like in NZ) Kaapo (finish) So funny...Alessandro and Paolo(italians ...

back to work
Jul 15, 2005 (18 photos)

Well I ran out of money so I came down here to do more fruit picking. I started work the day after I arrived, but it was shit (cutting sticks on contract), as was the place I was living (trailers on a garlic factory with all Asian ppl), so the next week ...

Let's go to Mildura !
Dec 20, 2005

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Lock 9
Feb 26, 2004

Gone South Trip

Fruit picking
Mar 5, 2006

... mais c'etait vraiment impressionnant car on ne voyait plus rien dans la ville. Et autre nouvelle catastrophique qui a touche Mildura personnellement : accident de voiture..mais cette fois ci plus que dramatique puisque plus de 6 jeunes sont morts et une ...

Mildura
Jul 28, 2007

... chose the place because it was, you guessed it, only a short walk away from the local RSL club, where a jug of ale was a$10 and a great Bistro meal was a$35. The food in Australia is so much better than we expected, dare we say it, better than in the UK.

Our first few days
Jul 29, 2009 (9 photos)

... accomplished; the summit was ours! By evening we had crossed the wheat fields of the Wimmera and the Mallee scrub lands and reached Mildura and our first night with Hilary and Alec properly in their tent.  We planned only a brief stay, but we had long ...

TV Australienne
Feb 4, 2006

Et voila aujourd'hui j'ai decide de vous parler de la TV AUSTRALIENNE!! Tt d'abord les pubs : y'a des coupures environ ttes les 10 minutes. Pour vous donner un exemple si vous regarder les simpsons (qui dure environ 30 min) il y a au minimum 3 coupures ...

Harvest Trail Victoria
Feb 20, 2009 (12 photos)

... up and down a ladder all day, usually carrying about 30 or 40 pounds of pears in an apron like bag. We drove to Mildura on Sunday the 15th and started grape picking the following day. Grape picking is less strenuous, but still tiring, as you are bending ...

Meilman Station, Euston
Jan 25, 2007 (31 photos)

... Butcher Bird)... What more could you ask for on an adventure holiday?!  Our final day culminated in a full on Aussie Australia Day, with bunting on the Murray, Pavlova, Lamingtons, BBQ, Stubbies and Champagne (well for Jayne and Karen!) Not ...

Our Last 2 Weeks in Mildura
Nov 7, 2005 (22 photos)

So we are getting ready to leave Mildura..finally! We are heading to Melbourne but not before some goodbye parties and nights out. Most of these pics are of friends that we have met and are now on their way like we will be soon. This just helps us not ...

Australia Day
Jan 26, 2009

... nbsp; Nothing open.  Found a little motel that had rooms and was open, so I grabbed one of them.  It was Australia Day, so everyone was pretty much going out and spending the day drinking, grilling, and hanging out.  The bars in Mildura were ...

Poker anyone?
Dec 3, 2006

... to meet up witht he family when we get there late December. This morning we left Hay (New South Wales) and headed for Mildura (Victoria). When we arrived at Mildura we went to the local pub (mmmm... bit of a pattern going on!) and had some afternoon ...

Mildura
Jan 30, 2009

Mildura (30 January 2009 to 6 February 2009) Leaving Adelaide and family behind, we headed up the the Murray Riverlands.

Day 24 - Paringa to Mildura
Sep 9, 2009 (1 photos)

... ), the shoulders were wide and quite smooth, which mean't we could stay on the shoulder in single file all the way to Mildura, thus letting the trucks, caravans and cars go merrily by without too much danger to us riders. The landscape was quite flat, in ...

Mungo National Park
Aug 14, 2006 (1 photos)

Na een ijskoude nacht in onze tent weer de hort op. Eindelijk een natuurlijke attractie... Mungo National Park met de Walls of China, zandduinen langs een opgedroogd meer. Maar voordat je daar kan komen moet je nog wel even 88km over een gravel/zand weg ...