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Travel Blogs from Margaret River
I'm not drinking f**kin merlot!
We left Mandurah on the bus to Margaret River, and at this point I must once again give my thanks to Roy and Margaret for treating us so well, you guys were awesome.
Once again, in true Aidan style I had managed to book us into a place which was 10-15 minutes outside of town. And to make matters worse, we thought this place would …
Paradise
In NZ I had heard about this great place on the west coast of Australia called Margaret River. Thought it might be worth checking out, plus with all the flooding in the east coast it was an easy decision to make the trip.
Originally thought I'd do a week there at a hostel near the beaches, well that was 3 weeks ago and I could have gotten …
This Ain't No Walk in the Park
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." - Cesare Pavese
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Wine, wine and more wine ...
So my solo venture commenced! I rented a car for 10 days and set out to conquer the South West Coast. It felt liberating and also scary to be on my own again and have total freedom as to what I did and where I went after so long being totally organised by someone else. I was a little nervous in the car to start as I hadn't driven for 6 months but …
Eat. Drink. And be merry.
Once we arrived in Margaret River, we booked a taxi to take us to the hostel, so Fiona made the phonecall, however she forgot to hang up whilst doing an impersonation of the taxi man, so when said taxi man pulled up, he was most impressed that we were "bagging" on his accent. It was all in jest though, and he found it pretty funny especially …