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Travel Blogs from Australia
(Martin) Laurence of Australia (& Kate)
This is a top pick! Get it? Laurence of Australia instead of Laurence of Arabia? Fraser Island = Sand = Arabia = Laurence = Martin. Well I liked it anyways. Sorry. Apologising at the start of a blog is never a good thing. An early start as promised. Alarm ...
Snip, Snip, Snip
This is a top pick! The new job has begun and a week of it has passed; it's quite boring and not something I'd want to brag about on my resume, but it's money, isn't it? It's not really packing grapes so much as cleaning them up to be packed: snipping out the rotten ones, ...
Palm Beach and more of Sydney
This is a top pick! No blog as such in that there is no real write up, just some more photos of our time in Sydney and of Palm Beach which is north of Sydney as it better known as Summer Bay, location of Aussie soap opera Home and Away. We hope you enjoy the ...
XXXX and the City
This is a top pick! ... are worth about $3 each depending on where you buy it. The choice was from the top selling 'XXXX Gold' (second in Australia to 'VB'), 'XXXX Bitter' (only really sold well in Queensland - a bitter lager), 'Summer Bright XXXX' (a Corona alternative, ...
Mission Beach
This is a top pick! Mission Beach, stretching for 14kms of beautiful sand looking out to Dunk Island, was another beautiful Aussie beach. Camping right up on the beach front, as some skydivers parachuted onto the beach, with a stubby and a pancake, was a bearable way to ...
Townsville
This is a top pick! ... and then headed via a series of very enjoyable hair-pin bends and a delightful dirt track to Wallaman Falls. At 278kms this is Australia's longest single drop waterfall, and it is amazing. Arriving into the car park at the top of the drop it was ...
Noosa
This is a top pick! Lovely Noosa treated me very well, after all that driving to get there. The morning was spent walking along the harbour, and visiting the many lovely shops, a significant amount of which I looked for too dishevelled to even window shop in. Then ...
Singapore to Berry, NSW, Australia!!!
This is a top pick! ... them when he passes. Off for our maiden voyage to Jervis Bay which is one of the many National Parks in Australia. Jethro happily trundled along the winding roads that led us to our destination. We swam, then went for something to eat ...
Bovine Romantics
This is a top pick! The Hatfields (Peter, Lynda, his wife and the other owner, and Kym, their daughter, around my own age but generally quiet) are getting the most out of my time; I paint the outside of dormitory huts, I saw, I sand, I feed animals, I weed, I vacuum floors, ...
Sydney
This is a top pick! ... in letting us check out the available vehicles, and the price was right. From there we checked the closest library for the Camps Australia Wide book we'd already bought for AUD$55 to see if we could loan it instead. Since Australia is so vast ...
Good morning Sydney!
This is a top pick! Up early for my flight as can be seen from the sunrise pic. Even looking at the sun on a computer monitor I still feel as though I should be looking at the screen with sun-glasses on... View of Sydney from David's of course. Bit ...
The Perils and the Pleasures
This is a top pick! Some days exist solely to remind you that no-one can be a backpacker forever. Sometimes, when everything is going so smoothly, you feel like it's a lifestyle you maintain forever, this living out of a bag, bouncing from spot to spot, meeting people, ...
Wet and Windy in the Whitsundays - Day 3
This is a top pick! ... man was yet another lovely German we had met on this part of the trip. Luke and Fiona were great fun and spoke enthusiastically of Australia, and some of the places we are yet to visit – but yet reminded us that a lot of people here have ventured ...
The Sound of Silence - NT of Australia
This is a top pick! ... largest single rock in the world. (The world's largest rock: Mt. Augustus in the Golden Outback region of Western Australia.) Kata Tjuta, also known as The Olgas, are a group of large domed rock formations located about 365 km southwest of ...
Welcome to the Top End
This is a top pick! Another ridiculous rushed morning and I didn't even get to finish my first cup of coffee before Adrian started the bus to get everyone on board. The BOSS had a mouthful of toothpaste and others were still running around picking up last bits and pieces. ...
The Red Centre
This is a top pick! Another truly dreadful night in the Melanka Backpacker. Words cannot adequately express how truly bad this place is. It should be either totally refurbished or pulled down. The common spaces and the bathrooms have not been cleaned in two days; our room ...
The Blue Mountains
This is a top pick! The night ended nice and late but with just enough sleep to wake up at the crack of dawn to catch a bus to the blue mountains. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate on this gloomy day, but I did get to see a kangaroo in the wild! ...
Sunburnt in Sydney
This is a top pick! ... house and bridge. The next day woke up early to do the 7km walk from Bronte beach to the most famous beach in Australia, Bondi. The walk was fantastic and the cliffs and beaches are spectacular. After winding down from that I walked into downtown ...
Christmas in summer - very very odd
This is a top pick! ... , what we would be doing or who we would be spending it with. As it turned out we would be spending Christmas in Australia, doing lots of fun and unusual activities (unusual in the sense that Christmas in the sun offers a whole different lot of ...
A flying visit to Uluru
This is a top pick! So, after a couple of weeks on the road, we decided that we would give Jethro a well earned break and flew up to Uluru (the truth is that we didn't dare risk driving through thousands of kilometres of desert with nothing but the burning sun and snakes ...
On The Road Again
This is a top pick! ... I am at all familiar with but it sems to be quite good fun. I think the most noteworthy thing so far is this - Australia is beautiful. I mean really, remarkably beautiful. True, there are a few to many things hiding in the bushes that want to kill ...
The beautiful city of Sydney
This is a top pick! As we all know Pat is a very friendly guy and one of the many friends that he has made over the years, Chris, happens to live in a lovely place called Manly, north of Sydney centre. Chris and Pat had never actually met ...
Watarrka National Park
This is a top pick! Kings Canyon is probably the next most visited site in the centre of Australia after the Uluru-Kata Juta region. It's a very impressive gorge in one of the regions many sandstone ranges. The rim walk is a 3 hour trek that starts from the mouth of the ...
An Epic Day
This is a top pick! A late morning and we head to a nice Bondi brunch place called Trio where I was introduced to truffled eggs, which may have changed my life forever. I absolutely died and considered ordering a second round before some people we "knew" magically ...
Animals and Airplanes
This is a top pick! Just a short one from Vinny. Not all of us have throw ourselves into such a heavy employment load as my cohort. I've been taking it rather easier. A few gardening jobs here and there. One weeding for two old Aussie brothers, who started sucking down ...
Theodor Storm
This is a top pick! ... point and in no time we were boarding the Theodor Storm, the aforementioned cargo ship on a journey from Europe to Singapore to Australia and back again. Our first pleasant surprise was the quality of the room - it was clean, for starters. We were ...
The Night Sky Welcomes Me to the South
This is a top pick! On Monday night, after a roaring game of Trivial Pursuit which Helen won handily (despite my konwing all the answers to the preponderance of questions about ice hockey), I said, "You know, I haven't seen the southern stars since I arrived; I'd like to ...
Canberra
This is a top pick! ... can be barbequed! Our final day was spent engaged in the vast exhibits of the War Memorial, poignantly commerating Australia's role in twentieth century conflicts. As a historian it was interesting to escape the classic European / American ...
The Anti Tourist
This is a top pick! "Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" -- Top Gun St Patrick's Day came and went with lots of work, lots of Red Bull, and more than a few Iraqi Occupations. We managed to break all records at the pub, including biggest day for ...
Uluru (Ayers Rock)
This is a top pick! Iconic, mystical and breathtakingly massive, Uluru cannot be seen as just a rock. Sadly, far too many Australians and tourists alike, abuse Uluru as if it is just a natural wonder. It pains me to say it, but for once Germaine Greer was ...