"Zimbabwe is the only country in the World where I could walk into a casino and put 10,000,000 on red, and not care about the result. After all, 10m Zim dollars is just less than a ..."
"Spend two weeks out in the middle of nowhere and you fall out of the routine of the average backpacker. Part of that routine involves such luxuries as, for example, mattresses. Dai ..."
" 26th September - I can see Australia! So today, around 5pm, I went to the bridge to see Australia come into view. With the hi-tech equipment on board the Chief Officer was able t ..."
"Whereas Perth is inland a bit, Freo - or Fremantle - is right on the coast. This is the main shipping point for Western Australia and, proudly, home to Australia II, the boat that ..."
A travel blog entry from Fremantle by
jay29
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"I was all prepared. I'd done my homework. I'd studied up on the Batavia, which shipwrecked off the coast of Australia in 1629. It was the country's second oldest shipwreck (the fir ..."
A travel blog entry from Fremantle by
basykes
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"(Em still here) Got the train from Perth to Fremantle (about 30 mins away) which is right on the coast and is even smaller than Perth. Is a lovely little town with more colonial st ..."
""There's nothing that can't be done" -- The Usual Suspects Pete Moore is a travel writer. He has written several books on his travels throughout the world, including Swahili For Th ..."
"After an early morning at the airport I arrived five hours later on the opposite side of this giant country, in Perth, Western Australia. I took a shuttle bus from the airport to F ..."
"So the job hunting hasn't really materialised yet, but will be going on Monday to the agencies. Applied for our Tax File Numbers online a few days ago so they should be coming in t ..."
"The excitement and the complete freedom of being able to move around and do whatever we liked was amazing. We loaded up, stocked the fridge and finally, unpacked. Pulled into our f ..."