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Melbourne - Windy City, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Melbourne - Windy City

A travel blog entry by andanddan

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... . Once in the city centre we were given a free transfer to the youth hostel we were staying at in the North of Melbourne - FREE!!! We wandered around for the remainder of the morning to orientate ourselves (and because our room was not yet available!) ...

Tram Town, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Tram Town

A travel blog entry by alasdairm

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... it happened again a few minutes later with the kind of ring tone that makes supermarket jingles seem catchy. Anyway, Melbourne although feeling a little chilly after recent temperatures did immediately appeal to me even with it being the busiest city ...

Fun in our Ford Falcon driving through Victoria, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Fun in our Ford Falcon driving through Victoria

A travel blog entry by wanderers

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... leave Lakes Entrance we stop off overlooking Rigby Island so we have to take a photo! We then drive all the way to Melbourne through Bairnsdale, Sale and Traralgon, stopping for dinner at Trafalgar. Much to M's relief L is feeling better so has her first ...

Time to leave Oz for now, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Time to leave Oz for now

A travel blog entry by hess

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... experiences even though not all were positive, I still had a great time... As with all good things..it is time to leave Melbourne, for a short time... I will be back in November for Meg and Stephen's wedding.. so its more of a case of au revoir than ...

Home, briefly, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Home, briefly

A travel blog entry by aussierach

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It's been great being back, there really is no place like home... From here I travel back via London, to Norway, heading up into the arctic circle, then probably to Stockholm and Amsterdam. Nick arrives in August, and we will make our way to Italy, ...

Wandering around Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Wandering around Melbourne

A travel blog entry by vickersontour

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... trophy that they won in 1990. They still call this football, they will just never learn! Next we wandered by the Melbourne Olympic Stadium. The Olympics were held here in 1956....and you can tell by the stadium! Apparently the Melbourne Storm Rugby ...

RANDOM TOUGHTS AND NEWS, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

RANDOM TOUGHTS AND NEWS

A travel blog entry by paul

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... - the prisons are almost full and some people may have to be released early to let others in. Fearful Australians - Coming from Thailand, Australia seems not quite right in some way, but it is hard to put my finger on it. Part of it is that there ...

The Iraqi Occupation, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

The Iraqi Occupation

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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... glass look pretty (in the same way brain haemorrhages are pretty). Then, poor half a pint of Coopers Pale Ale (if outside Australia, go for any cloudy lager, like Hoegarden). Then, perform the necessary toast ritual (I favour "I don't care who you are, ...

Melbourne - The culture city, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Melbourne - The culture city

A travel blog entry by vine_hooligans

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4 days in Melbourne, then off to Wagga Wagga for the weekend end before we arrive in Sydney for another 4 ...

Home Sweet Home, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Home Sweet Home

A travel blog entry by aussierach

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Road Trip! Everbody in the Van!!!, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Road Trip! Everbody in the Van!!!

A travel blog entry by onceinalifetime

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... she said goodbye to us at the ferry terminal. Here's best wishes for a speedy recovery Jane! The south coast of Australia is a beautiful piece of natural artwork, sculpted by thousands of years of crashing waves and thrusting winds. Mother Nature's ...

Great Ocean Road to Geelong & Melbourne - Day 239, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Great Ocean Road to Geelong & Melbourne - Day 239

A travel blog entry by christosp

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... road has now ended, just wish it was that little bit longer. Defiantly a must for anybody visiting this part of Australia, such an amazing and enjoyable drive with some awesome coastal landscapes. Next stop Geelong, the city completely obsessed with ...

Melbourne - Day 240, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Melbourne - Day 240

A travel blog entry by christosp

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... Kilda which offers great views of the city from the long pier where hundreds of sailing boats are moored. Really beginning to like Melbourne. It has a good mix of the old and the new and decent beaches really close to the city. Walked around the city ...

Trying to get a beer on New Year, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Trying to get a beer on New Year

A travel blog entry by supertrampz

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... in the glorious sunshine. Tuesday 30th January Hired bikes and rode along the banks of the Yarra river that splits Melbourne. Passed the MCG cricket ground and Rod Laver stadium, home of the Australian tennis open. Wednesday 31st January ...

A Jealous Thomas Goater......, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

A Jealous Thomas Goater......

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah

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... , london bridge, loch ard and gorge, mutton bird island. You name the lookout we looked out on it. We decided to drive back all the way to melbourne as tomorrow would be our last day in oz, as we had decided to move on to New Zealand a little ...

G'day from Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

G'day from Melbourne

A travel blog entry by emanddave

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Up and checked out and headed from brekkie over the road where we sat outside. Even if it is cool and showery here it seems like Melbournians try to pretend it is hot which is fine by me! Are now in a laundrette/internet cafe doing washing and the ...

Back in the Southern Hemisphere, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia travel blog

Back in the Southern Hemisphere

A travel blog entry by jawad

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... checking in at Los Angeles and baggage collection here in Melbourne. "My bag has been opened and rummaged through between LAX and Melbourne" I told the security officer as she asked me to open my main backpack. She did not seem to be concerned by ...

Killer Muse-ic, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Killer Muse-ic

A travel blog entry by paulandciara

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... we have been attending, we are absolutely knackered and don't seem to be getting time to relax (Yes... it's a hard life in Australia during the summer). Even during the week, our room is a communal one and there are people constantly coming through it ...

Great Ocean Road, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Great Ocean Road

A travel blog entry by rich

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... be accurate in this instance. It was close to 5.30pm at this point, and the sun was beginning to set. We travelled back to Melbourne on a more direct road, completing a loop of over 500km for the day. It certainly had been a long one by the time I got ...

Goodbye Australia, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Goodbye Australia

A travel blog entry by paulandciara

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... Melbourne for one night and had a good catch up and a laugh with him, went up the Rialto Tower for a 360° views of Melbourne, visited the National Gallery of Victoria and had a picnic in Albert Park. Last Saturday, we took part in a true Aussie ...

I'm Ghan back down south, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

I'm Ghan back down south

A travel blog entry by dazzla

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... decided to take the overnight bus to Melbourne and do the trip from there. Thursday January 22nd Arrived bright and early in Melbourne, Australia's second city and the capital of the state of Victoria. After checking in to a hostel and wolfing down ...

100 Today, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

100 Today

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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... the closest thing I've ever done to masturbating without getting sticky. V: You sicken me. A: And how are you guys finding Australia? V: Great. Beautiful country, one of my favourites. M: It is a beautiful country. If I was going to- V: Don't. ...

Three Point Fade Away, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Three Point Fade Away

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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... girls whose names I kept asking and then forgetting almost as quickly. And it was all good. One of the great things about Australia is the lifestyle. Sure, there's some things to sort out here and there (no time for tirade, no time for tirade), but ...

Australia - Part 1, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Australia - Part 1

A travel blog entry by paul

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... . Also quickly caught up and went for a run with Emma, her mum and friends. Everyone seems good. Initial impressions of Australia are of a spacious, well treed (it has a reasonable number of trees in the suburban areas), clean and quite wealthy ...

"Work, Work oh and a bit more work...!"

A travel blog entry by mattmcshane

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... a computer screen to earn those valuable $$$ Other things I got up to in my last month Traveled 2 hours North of Melbourne, with Tanielle, to a small town called Echuca. The idea was to try wake boarding on a friends boat, hopefully doing ...

" Swimming with unsocial dolphins..."

A travel blog entry by mattmcshane

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Your find it hard to find someone that wouldn't want to swim with Dolphins. When your brought up watching flipper, its hard not to! After our first run in with them in Santa Barbara, USA, a few months before, Dan and I had wanted to do it properly. ...

Surprise visit!, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia travel blog

Surprise visit!

A travel blog entry by jawad

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... direction to myself. Today I am typing away at a free internet terminal at the Pacprint 2005 expo being held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Dominik and I managed to blag our way in as we have some time to kill while Jorgen is collecting Sheila ...

"Why Don't You Just Play For 'Em, Umpire?"

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... end of the field has had far more opportunities to bring out their giant pompoms, and I am still politely cheering everytime Melbourne manages to get anywhere near the goal. In the second half it gets worse for Melbourne as Geelong stops toying with ...

"Packing my bags and leaving home... again...!"

A travel blog entry by mattmcshane

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... of life, I love the friendly people and I love social life you can have here. But its not just Melbourne, i'm starting to fall in love with Australia. So much so I have even looked into living here permanently. Maybe one day this might become ...

Left in Charge, Melbourne, Australia travel blog

Left in Charge

A travel blog entry by alasdairm

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... report to the front gate." Being so close to the zoo hearing the announcements when still half asleep can be a little weird. Melbourne is made up of a number of distinct areas or districts each with their own character with Fitzroy were I headed to ...

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