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122 The Esplanade Darwin, Top End, Northern Territory, Australia, 0801, 8-8943-3600
We *rrived in D*rwin *t 4.30*m Sund*y, with nothing to do but w*nder the streets. Fortun*tely the hotel (Holid*y Inn) s*id they could get our room re*dy for 9*m, so *fter * he*rty bre*kf*st in the poolside rest*ur*nt, we retired to the sun loungers for * lie down. We were woken *t 8.50 by the receptionist with our key, *nd looked up to see th*t the rest*ur*nt h*d filled up, *nd everyone w*s looking our w*y. Evidently we'd been providing the b*ckground music for everyone's bre*kf*st. After sle...
Darwin, Australia andyjoAn early start this morning, and after some textual advice from a former Darwinian resident, we headed off to Parap Market for breakfast. This was fantastic, packed with people and amazing food stalls (the place smelled amazing…a mix of sweet tropical fruit and fresh Asian food). Lots of colour and movement…it all just seems brighter in the heat. We queued up at the crepe stand for our breakfast (YUM) and were mildly miffed when we were immediately picked as 'not from around here'...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia cazali It seemed rude to ignore the crazy coincidence of running into Jarrod, so we caught up for coffee with him in town, where he told us all about adjusting to the climate and lifestyle up north.
We then took ourselves off the museum, to learn a bit about it for ourselves. It's a very well put together museum with lots of Aboriginal art, wildlife exhibitions and a big exhibit devoted to Cyclone Tracy. This was pretty eye-opening, and included a terrifying recording from the night and some...
Its 37 degrees !! (arrived at 1am ... it was 27 degrees ) Will update soon, having a wander around today, the only thing I know about darwin at the moment is that there is a starcity casino and a deckchair cinema that inspired Baz Luhrmann last year .. ! oh and that its only small and super hot. Got an amazing view from our room ... = )
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia christinaukHey, Its been a long couple of days, drags the day out when its so hot !! All the travelling about took its toll the other day and I managed to loose my phone - the one with an english contract. Bit of a stupid thing for me to do, managed to cancel it though so at least if someone finds it they wont rack us up a giant bill !! Im mainly gutted about the photos on it though, had loads of Isabelle =( Other than that had a good couple of days. Spent the first day retracking our steps to try and f...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia christinaukNach einem gemütlichen Sonntag am Strand, im Cafe und auf dem Balkon, mussten wir am Montag früh von Port Douglas Abschied nehmen. Da wir vom internationalen Terminal in Cairns abflogen, wurde uns geraten, den 8:00 Uhr Transferbus für unseren 12:45 Uhr Flug zu nehmen. Natürlich war dann am Flughafen gar nicht so viel los und wir hatten noch viel zu viel Zeit. Der Flug nach Darwin bot zum Teil grandiose Aussichten auf das Outback - Buschland so weit das Auge reicht, durchzogen mit Flüssen und ...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia mugita
... 3rd largest town on the NT. The most interesting things about Katherine the town itself would be a) no McDonalds and b) the alcohol laws. We drink cask wine because we can’t afford more, I am not ashamed. In Katherine you can only buy a 2L cask between 2pm-6pm, only one cask per person per day, and ID has to be scanned with any grog purchase so you can’t nip down the road to the next booze house and buy more. We ...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia dustydownloads... 8217;s eyes are sore from all the swimming (it was nickys eyes the day before) so he hides behind my sunnies and looks like a little Elton John. We are treated to another stunning westerly sunset and also unexpectedly a display of Aboriginal dance with the Fannie Bay sunset as the backdrop. Stunning.<br> <br>It has been an AWESOME four days with mum, dad and nick, and Sunday lunchtime it is time to say goodbye. We drop a few tears as we wave ...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia hindmarsh' Today we drove just down the road from Berry Springs to the Northern Territory Wildlife Park. This is a fantastic outdoor wildlife park, which gets away from all the cute and cuddly koalas, kangaroos and wombats, and focuses on Australia's lesser known species, and sometimes endangered species. We spent all day there, so long in fact that we had to book another night at a campsite just down the road!<br> We spent the morning going to all the ...
McMinns Lagoon, Northern Territory, Australia steph_nico... came back finally claimed his prize and a na overland telegraph line was established that first communications to the old blighty (England) took 16hrs to go and come back with the answer of "um who's this please" damn don;t u hate that even today u get strange text messages as well and when u think about it when they sent that first message it was a lot of dots and dashes and today 150yrs later the wheel has turned from typing a telegram to phone a friend to typing a text ...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia rossport... so whatever it is I am doing wrong hopefully will be fairly easily rectified – I find it’s a bit like learning to drive a car – I think I know all the things I have to remember to do but I just can’t put it all together!<br><br> Sunday 2nd Aug<br><br>Yesterday we completed another sightseeing day in and around Darwin. We started off at the Parap Street Market, which I really liked (better than Mindil Beach market I think). Parap is a suburb of Darwin ...
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia steveandsally
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