Australia
Travel Blogs from Australia
Blue Mountains
Having temporarily postponed our trip to the Blue Mountains, we spent Thursday morning mooching around some more. It was cloudy to begin with, but the sun eventually appeared and so we walked over the Harbour Bridge to North Shore, for yet more views of ...
Brisbane
I am awoken by the storms a few times through the night and decide that it is time for me to move on when I see the cloud cover once arising from my deep slumbers. Breakfast is taken next to some koalas which are conveniently housed a short stone ...
At the Pokies
Rich and Al and I have this one day to figure out Melbourne, really soak up its character, so we start out early (for us, so think noonish) and stay out late. We ride a tram into the city. The boys don't pay, because Laurence told us that we shouldn't, ...
if they bite, bite them back
Monday the 22nd was once again spent looking for houses. Hostel is costing around $500 a week so we need to make some headway fast. We spent monday night at the William hotel where we joined the comedy trivia night. It wa a good laugh, and we met ...
Hobart
As usual I left the packing to too late. Perhaps I should have just stayed up when I woke up on the couch at three in the morning. Things weren't helped by me almost bricking my new phone by installing some software meant for a different machine. One ...
World Cup and Uni Cities
With crumbling finances, a world cup to watch and a trip back to England planned, we have tried to keep things on the down low as much as possible over the last few weeks. We went over and visited Carl and Laura again, and sat and moaned about England ...
Living Underground with the Opals
Coober Pedy is The End of the World. That's what it looks like, at least: like the towns we'll all live in after some huge nuclear fallout, mutant beings scrabbling at the dirt in an endless desertscape. There are about four trees in Coober Pedy, and ...
Hey macarena aaaiiii........
4th December 2004 Today we decided to go to the fish market down near the Anzac Bridge (or the madonna's bra bridge as we quaintly heard it called) as we were feeling a bit p@@#$D off what with the whole bed bugs episode. I had been to the docs and ...
Sydney Locals
Just a few photos of the wildlife to expect in a day around Sydney... Still not used to seeing such amazing birds and animals within the city ...
The Comedy Channel 2005 Short Film Festival
This evening I attended the free outdoor evening show at Federation Square, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's conclusion. It was well attended and the quality of acts very high. Out of the many performances my favourites were ...
We wish you a merry christmas..
Christmas eve started at a stupidly early time of 4.30am for us. Catherine and Liz are coming around for a christmas BBQ so we decided to hit the fish markets early to get some fresh fish in. We got there just after 5am and the place was heaving. The ...
Wave Rock
... of the wave. In 1960, some crystals from Hyden Rock were dated as being 2700 million years old, amongst the oldest in Australia. After taking a photo of us surfing the rock (we have now done winnebago surfing, valley of the giants tree top surfing, ...
Return to Wandoora
It rained buckets most of yesterday, so we made a beeline back to Wandoora, Digby and Nicki's farm. On the way, we drove through the Stirling Range. They're very small mountains but, once again, the scenery was beautiful. Not that we could see alot ...
Final leg of the road trip - Gold Coast to Cairns
... it up the coast - our intended destination, BEERWAH!! Where? We hear you cry. Beerwah! Home of Australia Zoo and stomping ground of the late, great, Steve 'The Crocodile Hunter' Irwin. CRIKEY!!!! From the ...
2004 NSW State Concert Band Championships
Yesterday morning I caught a yellow and green commuter ferry to Circular Quay, the very heart of Sydney. I was pleased to discover that Sydney's transport system is fully integrated, and the same ticket can be used on ferries, buses and trains. If you ...
Bay of Fires
Played settlers last two nights Cookies every night Guest book entries asking about cookies, arguements over pros cons for TV Homely feel Going to Bay of Fires spots ...
Walking tour of the city
Phin and I headed downtown to meet up with Karina, a friend of mine from Emory. Karina's sister and another friend of theirs joined us for brunch in the Rocks and then we did a walking tour of the botanical gardens, Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, and even ...
Festive Fish and NYE Fireworks in Sydney Harbour
This year we swap jumpers and mittens for bikinis and "thongs" (Aussie speak for flip flops) as we spend Christmas and New Year in Sydney at the height of the Aussie summer. We swap the "comfort" of our Ford Falcon station wagon to sleep in bunk beds in ...
Ramsay Street!
I didn't see Harold Bishop. In fact, I didn't see any of the 'stars,' but I really enjoyed the day out regardless. I think this was mainly due to the fact that we went on an 'unofficial' tour, which basically meant a guy from the hostel drove us ...
Phillip Island
... one particular one, so Kim and me went there and overfaced ourselves with huge medium sized ham and pineapple pizzas! Kim was leaving Australia on Saturday, as it was only a short trip for her, and she admitted to being a little homesick. She was a very ...
Money Running out... Must get job !!!!
We had a 300k drive down the Hume Highway and we arrived in Melbourne. We already had decided we were going to stay in Melbourne for a while and get a job to fund the next stage of our travels. Plus we knew we would need accommodation as we would not be ...
Teenage Fanclub
... of talk about the Ashes series, and we both agreed it's good for the game to have such a close contest. I mentioned that Australia will struggle when Warne and McGrath retire in a couple of years! There's no doubt that the guy was very knowledgable, ...
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
This is the last week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and I have been frantically trying to catch as many acts as possible before it is all over. Yesterday I saw two shows: Julian Wilson in "Not My Rules" and the Comedy Knockout Comedy ...
Road trip part 3 - Melbourne to Gold Coast
... . A small peninsular north of Newcastle....Yes you may have gathered or already know that a lot of the place names in Australia are English. (digressing) there is an Oxford, Torquay...even a Rotherham Road! So back at Lemon tree Passage we settle in for ...
Seven Mile Beach
... and Britain. I'd even go as far as to say there are more differences in culture between Ireland and Britain than between Australia and Britain. I could happily write an essay on this topic but I think I'll stop now before anyone gets bored or upset. ...
Australia Day
... than humanly possible. My day started with a performance with my band at the Willoughby Citizenship ceremony. People living in Australia with residency status often go one step further and become citizens. It gives them the right to vote, which ...
The Great Ocean Road.
15th July 2005. We flew into Melbourne airport early in order to get a hire car ad to drive the great ocean road. We drove up to Warrnambool in order to walk Gibsons Steps and to see the 12 apostles at sunset. The sunset wasnt that great but we did ...
Our Sydney Pad
We have had three and a half months living in Sydney,most of that time spent in our little house in Ultimo with Tony, Sarah, Rob and Nic. And due to the fact that we had a leak in our room and the bathroom ceiling threatened to cave in we have been ...
