By homeless_harry | views [21] | Tue, 31 Aug 2010
This sunny afternoon I find myself writing from a bedroom that seems to have held some sort of sporting event; that possibly ended with some sort of riot. The demolished bed and soft tingles of the afterglow makes me blissfully aware that the bed may be needed again very soon. The evidence of yesterdays ...
read more »By homeless_harry | views [30] | Mon, 30 Aug 2010
An SMS from Mikey about playing golf brought me back to reality. I crawled out of a bed occupied by a Finnish co-worker breathing dreamily in the aftermath of a night not spent sleeping. It then dawned on me that I'm late, in the normal sense of the word. By Broome's definition, I was probably three ...
read more »By homeless_harry | views [45] | Sat, 21 Aug 2010
As another utopian dry season twilight silences the usual fun and frivolity of communal life in the staff crap shack, I use the rare moments of peace to finally bring this journal up to date. I take another long slurp of my frangelico and fresh lime velvet alcoholic love sauce, and feel ...
read more »By cmccasker | views [43] | Tue, 10 Aug 2010
Who would have thought, how hard it could be to get used to a new town. Get yourself settled and happy. I don't think we have reached this yet, and are only just holding onto our sanity in regards mostly to accommodation. You can't have everything, good location, price and people. We hit the jackpot ...
read more »By julio_martinez | views [71] | comments [3] | Mon, 9 Aug 2010
3 weeks in Australia so far... here, it is all what I imagined it to be... nice beaches, beautiful nature, surfing culture, and supercool animals... but it's also other things I didn't imagine it to be. Like the aborigenes beautiful culture and sad history. Like the travel to party culture, drank by ...
read more »By silverlady | views [54] | Tue, 3 Aug 2010
It’s been three months of full time work on the boat by a great shipwright but silver lady is back together and ready to go. The decks are brand new, hull re sprayed, new antifouling and the propeller re pitched to let her go faster under power. She looked fantastic and I couldn’t wait ...
read more »By kurenai | views [203] | comments [2] | Sun, 1 Aug 2010
I like chocolate. Melbourne has chocolate cafés. It seemed quite natural to put the two together during my one year stint living down under and see what I could come up with. I admit that I have a perchance for dark, thick, rich chocolate rather than the lighter, thinner kinds. Here ...
read more »By ambassador | views [570] | Tue, 27 Jul 2010
33,000 kilometers, 12 months, 7 states and heaps of adventure activities ...finally it's time to announce the winners of the Van-Tastic Adventures roadtrip competition. Congratulations Willie Concep c i ó n and Andrew Adams , the Van-Tastic Adventures Northern Territory roadtrip ...
read more »By rich | views [47] | Tue, 20 Jul 2010
The Australian visas expires tomorrow and we have to go back to the UK. Not because we're moving back, but for a wedding! Rich's older bro is tying the knot and we're heading back to the UK on 19th August. But, that gives us four weeks in between, so we decide to visit another continent. We've ...
read more »By homeless_harry | views [93] | comments [1] | Wed, 14 Jul 2010
I'm working up a sweat just thinking about what to write. That's not because I'm whipping my brain like a pack horse, it's just a constant by-product of life in Broome. Compared to Hobart, it's like living inside an active volcano. Given that my body spent the last few months fattening up ...
read more »By kurenai | views [94] | Fri, 2 Jul 2010
I’m in Cairns at the moment soaking up the nice weather and being a tourist as this is one of THE places to go touristing in Australia. My dad flew over from LAX to Australia for a mini-two week vacation as congratulatory prize for me graduating university with a Masters degree. Whoo! ...
read more »By cmccasker | views [56] | Fri, 2 Jul 2010
Just weeks away...... It's amazing how time has flown since I last wrote in this blog, it felt like yesterday that I was exclaiming about our trip being 11 weeks away. Since then we have been through formals and break ups and working working working for the likes of Gabby and Me. In truth our trip ...
read more »By kurenai | views [80] | Tue, 22 Jun 2010
Berlin Bar is a rather fun German-themed bar; the best part would be deciding if you wanted to be in opulent West Berlin or barbed-wire East Berlin. West Berlin has plush sofas, gilded mirrors, and a feeling of splendor. East Berlin, however, is full of camouflage netting, ammo box and converted ...
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [283] | comments [2] | Tue, 22 Jun 2010
So this is it. We just woke up on our final day of our six week journey. I can’t believe it’s been six weeks already. We started in Darwin, fresh and ready to go, and I think I can say that we still share that sense of wonder and excitement weeks later. We saw some amazing things over ...
read more »By cherylb | views [73] | Sun, 20 Jun 2010
It pays to have a camera on you at all times when travelling, although this can often be inconvenient - like in the queue for boarding the bus to your plane at the airport and someone has this really intense look in their eyes and you know that AT ALL COSTS, they are determined to get to the FRONT ...
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [181] | Thu, 17 Jun 2010
Last week we visited Rottnest Island, just off the coast of Perth. A short ferry ride (with Rottnest Express) over from the mainland, Rottnest has many things to see and do. After we arrived on the island we rented bicycles and started out to explore the many beaches, inlets and lakes....
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [211] | Thu, 17 Jun 2010
Below the earth there are places that seem to transport you to ages long ago. The caves are alive, constantly changing and evolving, offering us a magical underground environment that is world’s apart from the ground up above. Last week we were fortunate enough to go adventure caving in Yanchep ...
read more »By lukas | views [50] | Tue, 15 Jun 2010
Parte 1: Perros La isla de Fraser puede enganar a cualquier desprevenido que llega y ve camionetas 4x4, buses, y algunas avionetas circulando por las interminables playas de arena blanca. No les recomiendo confiarse por la apariencia de civilizacion y armonia que brota de las sonrisas de ...
read more »By cherylb | views [57] | Tue, 15 Jun 2010
This is where I celebrated my birthday. What an amazing setting - somehow it is TOO beautiful, if that is possible. Santorini has so much fascinating history -the lost city of Atlantis is said to lie somewhere in the volcanic depths... but more of that story later. and This is also where our ...
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [125] | Tue, 15 Jun 2010
A day after hurdling ourselves out of a plane, we were off to Rockingham, just half an hour south of Perth, for a day of swimming with wild bottle-nosed dolphins. We arrived and were greeted by the crew of Rockingham Wild Encounters and then onto the boat for a brief safety announcement before we ...
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [194] | Sat, 12 Jun 2010
As usual I think the best way to do this is to give a run down of recent events in a top 5 list. So here we go….. 1. Boshack Farm. This was a very fun part of our trip as Patrick and I were introduced to authentic Australian culture by our guide and manager of the farm, Chrissy. She taught ...
read more »By kurenai | views [52] | Sat, 12 Jun 2010
Lentils As Anything is an amazing not-for-profit restaurant with a “pay as you feel” philosophy where YOU decide what you pay at the end of the visit. There’s a box by the door where you deposit money – or not – as you see fit. It’s largely staffed by volunteers and much of it is run as a vegan/vegetarian ...
read more »By alexandpatrick | views [108] | Fri, 11 Jun 2010
We're now into week 4 of our journey across Western Australia, and I am starting to think it's time to start appealing to the good people at Travellers Auto Barn to just let us keep the van for say, umm, the next year or so, so we can see more of what this great country has to offer. I don't want ...
read more »By ambassador | views [658] | Fri, 11 Jun 2010
Seven lucky teams of travellers from across the world have tackled the ultimate Aussie roadtrip in the WorldNomads.com Van-Tastic Adventures competition! They set out to experience all that Australia has to offer while filming and documenting their journeys in our karmic campervan....
read more »By lukas | views [50] | comments [2] | Wed, 9 Jun 2010
Apenas llegue a Australia, OZ como le dicen aca (por "Aussie") no necesite tener un doctorado en matematica para darme cuenta que todo estaba mas o menos 4x mas caro que en nuestro querido pais natal. El dolar australiano esta solo 10% mas barato que el de USA, y aca casi todo cuesta ...
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