Koala Hotel

· Wednesday - I met Gareth, friend of Michael G.'s from back home in NYC, out for 'cheap beer night' at the Oxford Hotel. It was great fun and everyone was in good spirits. I however was feeling like I ought to eat dinner if I had any hope of competing ...

... photos avec les agneaux. Ils étaient vraiment mignons. Puis nous sommes partis, en route pour le prochain arrêt, la forêt Consevation Koala sur Phillips Island. Nous avons roulé environ 45 minutes pour y arriver, et sur la façon dont nous avons vu ...

... worth it) for a op, we marched to the spot.  Sara went first while i videotaped and she was handed a lovely koala named Jaffa.  Thankfully, he had already urinated and deficated on the couple who went before us, total truth.  After ...

... ; So, it became a huge experience.    The highlights were the actual animal interactions!  After a chat session with the Koala keeper we went inside the enclosure to pet the animals and take a picture.  We were inside when some of the ...

... ghesthouse, accueil sympa par une française de passage durant quelques mois, chambre spacieuse et toute rose, 70 RM (Loc Ann Hotel). Joseph semble décidé à ce que nous y revenions ensuite, cool, ça me fera économiser 100 euros sur notre projet ...

... no instances of offers for banana rubs in Malaysia) and watch Xfactor contestants put on a free show. We stayed in the hotel for a couple more days before moving to my uni mates (Tabby) apartment. It was great to see Tabby and catch ...

... pad', 'kindergarten', 'newly weds' etc. We weren't sure quite what to expect as we queued up to have our picture taken cuddling a koala. They looked absolutely adorable but I had heard they could be quite vicious. As our koala was handed to us, it wrapped ...

... ; One of the creepier sights we saw was the tour we took of the windowless Freemasons' headquarters which was near our hotel in downtown Sydney.  The displays we saw and the information booklets we were given were all purposefully vague-they all ...

... watched on television, in a vain attempt to understand the rules. On our return to Melbourne from Tasmania, we stayed at the Formule 1 Hotel, right at the airport, for $109.  We rented a car for three days to see the famed Great Ocean Road heading ...

... !!  It's lovely and clean but still has the Asian flavour.  I will definitely be back, there is still a Singapore sling at the Raffles hotel with my name on it. * No animals - gnus, dogs or monkeys were harmed during the writing of this blog. ...

... amp; then! Sunday morning we caught the first bus (8:30 am) to Lone Pine Sanctuary where we got to cuddle a 2-year-old Koala ... specifically Specs (we think this is how the name is spelled)!  This was one of the most amazing experiences to have ...

... informed that dinner was not until 7pm and that we had a few hours to explore. This we did. We explored our way to the Koala bar where a very amusing scene took place: We sat down and the woman took our drink orders. She then began laughing. The next ...

... the 50 metres across the street to our hostel - Tinbilly's. It is a surprisingly nice hostel and very clean, almost like a hotel but with bunkbeds..we went for lunch at the adjoining restaurant which was so shitty we were all so very disappointed..we ...

... to drive through the cave itself which is a bit odd. Upon emerging on the otherside you are confronted by a massive visitors centre/hotel that looks like it's been borrowed from a swiss mountain side. It was a little bit of a tourist trap seeing as ...

... dus. Terwijl we kijken naar een vogelshow en langs de Australian Walkabout lopen met verschillende kangeroesoorten, wombats, possums, emu's en koala's, vertelt ze ons hoe ze hier terecht is gekomen en hoe het is om hier te wonen, werken en ...

... looking out the window and saw a family (dad, mum, grandfather & a young son) and they were standing outside the hotel waiting for something. A Japanese guy was walking along and nodded to them as he walked past, then he turned around and went back ...

... the hotel i was looking for which was more expensive then i hoped so I walked about 3 more blocks and food a decent place called koala hotel for a fan room 700 pesos a night. My knee is still F%^ked today Its been pretty bad luckily it never started to ...

... soon. After two days in Rocky we decided, from the massive peer pressure from the population of Rocky (info center ladies, hotel receptionist, taxi driver..etc) to check out Capricorn Dave's BeefnReef Tour. It was an insanely small tour run by this ...

... fantastic people named Jon and Margaret. It was one of the best backpackers we have been to so far. It was converted from a hotel that was originally built in 1867. Oamaru is an old town and due to it's harbour was originally destined to be one ...

... me for a whole 12 months!!! - with a meal out at The Oyster Bar in South Perth and a drink up at the Oxford Hotel afterwards. Very relaxing and enjoyable night and we even got each other prezzies! Earrings, flowers and choccies for Soph and I got a ...