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Australia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Australia
Canada Day Long Weekend
This is a top pick! The bright sun rose on Canada Day and we were thankful for having been born and raised in the best country in the world. Sylvia pulled out the Canadian flag luggage tag she'd stowed away after the Vietnam incident and Chaplin showed off his hat with ...
Kakadu
This is a top pick! We woke early for our second tour. I would have liked a day of rest but it was not to be - at least we had clean clothes. The Cav provided a nice breakfast and the best coffee I've had since Broome. Adventure Tours picked us up around 6.30am in the same ...
The beautiful city of Melbourne
This is a top pick! Another walking tour of the city brings me to the Victoria Market, Telstra Dome, Flagstaff Gardens, the Stock Exchange, Queen Victoria Gardens, and all the areas of downtown Melbourne. It's a very nice city and seems to be quite young, wealthy and ...
Road Trip the First
This is a top pick! We checked out of the hostel in Perth early in the morning and I got my first chance at driving the Commodore. The power steering was completely broken so it was hellishly hard to get it to turn corners and within five minutes Ian's navigation had me ...
Out of the Rush Life
This is a top pick! ... Sydney this morning on the Greyhound and took the bus toPort Macqaurie. I"m heading this way to join up with Conservation Volunteers Australia, which I'm hoping will give me an opportunity to muck around in the real Aussie bush. The views on the way ...
The Pursuit of Happyness
This is a top pick! ... know some of the rules it becomes watchable.... For me anyway. We had bought tickets for the one-day international between England and Australia. Again just to tick another thing off the "must do" list. It was played in the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), ...
Lots to do...
This is a top pick! After a morning spent browsing in the many music shops, Rie and me headed towards the Harbour Bridge in the afternoon. We'd been debating whether or not to do the Bridge Climb (extortionately priced at $160), and indeed we've still not decided to this ...
Kakaduuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
This is a top pick! Another day , another relocation. That's right , we were about to go with two guys that had a car when we began calling the rental agencies. Finally , we found a relocation from Darwin to Adelaide that needs to be back by the beginning of July and ...
The Holy Trinity of Travelpod
This is a top pick! "There is a house in New Orleans, They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, And God, I know, I'm one." -- The House of the Rising Sun The first self-imposed rule of Travelpod was that we wouldn't talk about women. ...
The Key
This is a top pick! ... own. Not as a quest for independence, but as an expression of it. I don't really know what I was expecting from Australia; there were high expectations because it's a tried and tested backpacker route, trodden by millions of feet just like mine in ...
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours.....!!!
This is a top pick! ... cosmopolitan and lots to do. The main highlight was the volume of vegetarian restaurants. Apparently there are more in Melbourne than overall Australia! Well Oz was just about coming to an end so we made our way back to Sydney a few days before our ...
"Untitled" or "The Melbourne Walk"
This is a top pick! I won't waste too many words on the details. I'll give you brushstrokes with some embellishment on the moments that stick in the mind. I'm writing this a couple of days later on my birthday and so recalling is a little harder than usual - after half a ...
Leaving South East Asia in style
This is a top pick! ... . I explained that we were just given them and weren’t sure why. It led us to a nice long conversation about living in Australia as he had emigrated years back and it made my flight a lot easier than recent trips into the air. Food service looked ...
Bicycling South
This is a top pick! My big bike ride had begun, with the first leg thirty kilometres from Freo to Rockingham, where I would pick up a bus to Bunbury. (I didn't have the time or money to bike the intervening kms, and there weren't places to stay, either). I wasn't sure what ...
The Race that wobbles a nation
This is a top pick! ... they looked the bees knees as they sat down for their Pizza's with unlimited self serve ice cream. Classy. I think it sums up Australia a little. The race is a big classy event and everyone talks about it as if they care about the racing. The truth is ...
Wine, Cheese and Indulgence
This is a top pick! ... those interested, Newcastle has in the past exported sand to Hawaii and it has more Artists per capita than anywhere else in Australia. Now you know. Sadly as soon as we stepped onto the front a big fog cloud rolled in and covered everything in an ...
Convicts and the Colony
This is a top pick! ... to reform and others believed in treating criminals (who most of which were guilty of very petty crimes) to lashes and severity. Australia wouldn't have been the place it is if the harsher treatment had been inflicted first. The museum gave a little ...
Hurry Up and Wait
This is a top pick! Needed that sleep so much. Strange then that I managed to stay up till 10pm because I was broken tired. Even stranger that post napping after the tour Kate managed to stay up till 10pm also. What film kept our attention, and even more unlikely, ...
It's a mighty big rock!
This is a top pick! ... 4WD track and bush camping. If readers have not seen the movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert then they should rush out and watch it right now. It is an Aussie classic and will give you a good insight into the Australia psyche and sense of ...
On to the Whitsundays
This is a top pick! After a few hours of sleep I'm off to the airport to fly to Hamilton Island where I'm tasked with finding a hotel room on arrival. They are all quite expensive and I get myself a bungalow which isn't as nice as it should be for the price, but I ...
Coral Bay
This is a top pick! We arrive at Coral Bay on the 19th May and are very impressed with how beautiful it is. We get the togs on and head straight to the beach for a snorkel. Great fun until both of us cut our feet on the coral. Thomas is ok but I keep bleeding, youch. ...
One last BLAST !!
This is a top pick! Woke at 4.30am and dressed in the warmest clothes possible. The bus that was supposed to pick us up at 5am turned up at 5.30 so we could have had an extra half hour of sleep. We drove out of town for about 30kms to meet the other bus carrying the ...
Sure Beats the Stairmaster
This is a top pick! Tuesday morning I walked with Kate down to the local scenic railway, which is supposedly the steepest inclined railway in the world. I was determined that I would only pay to ride one way, and spit out the cash to ride down. The lady at the desk gave me ...
Sydney Fish Market
This is a top pick! Sydney fish market is about a 10 minute walk from our house and it is fantastic. Situated by the water (as you would expect!) it has everything you could want inside and tables to eat it on outside. We went there for dinner and ended up having tuna ...
Egypt here we come: Only 4 weeks to go!
This is a top pick! Only 4 weeks to go and counting down! I am so looking forward to this trip. I'm sure that Mum is looking forward to it too but she doesn't show emotion and wont let herself get excited, preventing any possible disappointment. I don't ...
Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... Island, Gold Mine and the Melbourne Tower. Phillip Island Nature Park - Penguin Parade One of the most popular attraction in Australia is watching little penguins returning ashore at sunset after a day´s fishing. At the Phillip Island, people sat on ...
Blue Mountains, NSW
This is a top pick! For a much needed weekend out of the forever hectic and buzzing city the Blue Mountains sounded perfect and it's only $11 dollars to get there on the train so we packed a bag and headed off. The area is known as the blue mountains due to the ...
Leaving Sydney, so sad!
This is a top pick! Phin left this morning after one of the best reunions in the history of man. Sydney was quite the random forum for this overdue meeting of two old friends, but my guess is that we would have had as much fun regardless of where we had met back ...
Noosa
This is a top pick! Finally a day of full on sunshine and we're in the right place to make the most of it. We dump our bags at the YHA and head to the beach which is similar to Bondi with lots of people and big waves. We bump into Kate and Woody who we met at Ningaloo and ...
And so, to the Top 5...
This is a top pick! Over this entire journey, the Top 5 has been ever-present. It has summarised cultures, people, situations, annoyances, the music, the random. So it is only appropriate that, at the conclusion of this journey, I reflect in the form of a set of Top 5s - ...