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AUSTRALIA | Sat, 7 Nov 2009 | By vantasticnsw | Views [99]
It's the end of our trip! Nooooooo!!! Nah it's cool. We're ok, really. We got to finish with a BANG ...with SKY DIVING and CLIMBING THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE!! Skydiving was insane! The feeling was absolutely incredible!! You ... Read more >
Tags: van-tastic, nsw, roadtrip australia, sydney, skydiving, skydive the beach, bridge climb, sydney harbour bridge, bridgeclimb, wollongong
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 3 Nov 2009 | By vantasticnsw | Views [89]
Hey guys! Carly here. Last week we went on an awesome surf camp with Surf Camp Australia. It was sooo good. We loved it and it and it is definitely one of the best things we have done on our trip. Three vans full of surfers were picked up ... Read more >
Tags: van-tastic, nsw, roadtrip australia, sydney, surfing, surf camp, surf camp australia, seven mile beach
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 | By vantasticnsw | Views [101] | Video
We make it to Sydney on our Van-Tastic NSW roadtrip adventure. Check out our amazing accommodation at Wake Up!, visit Cockatoo Island (Sydney’s best kept accommodation secret!), learn to surf on world famous Bondi Beach, and then climb to the top of ... Read more >
Tags: van-tastic, nsw, roadtrip australia, sydney, cockatoo island, surfing, lets go surfing, bondi, wake up, bridge climb
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 | By vantasticnsw | Views [247] | Comments [1]
Hello! After almost five weeks on the road, we successfully made it to Sydney! Most of the places we visited up until this point were chilled out coastal towns, so it was a bit of a shock to arrive in Sydney during peak hour to see so many cars ... Read more >
Tags: van-tastic, nsw, roadtrip australia, sydney, cockatoo island, surfing, lets go surfing, bondi, wake up
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 16 Sep 2009 | By leah | Views [68]
It took me nearly a year of being in Oz to finally make it to Sydney, home of the famous Opera House and Harbour Bridge, as well as many other beautiful pieces of architecture. It also boasts great parks, a waterfront botanical garden, ferries to take ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, australia, new south wales, harbour bridge, opera house, the rocks
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 9 Jul 2009 | By smarkas | Views [202]
Drum roll, please...da da da da da da! He has arrived! Yes, Geoff the much-anticipated karmic campervan has been suited up, souped up and hit the streets of Sydney yesterday afternoon. As he zipped through the CBD down to Circular Quay and ... Read more >
Tags: van-tastic adventures, roadtrip, australia, sydney, world nomads, competitions, travel
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 | By alorraine | Views [114]
Still in Sydney, but living on top of the world. So the travelling has come to an end for the moment. No more mad adventures across continents, no more mental nights out with goats, no more ‘life experiences’. Not for now. Well, there are still goats.... Read more >
Tags: notdrinking, thieves, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 18 May 2009 | By alorraine | Views [164]
Jumping to Sydney..... I expressly came to the internet shop today to spend a couple of hours finishing my Melbourne to Perth journal, but alas I have come here without my little notes telling me where I was each day, and exactly how much alcohol ... Read more >
Tags: drinking, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [313]
Location: Sydney, Australia Dates: May 18-24, 2009 Level of Participation: 3 - shy types can just sit in the back quietly, whilst others will dive in headfirst for workshops or author Q&A's. Description: Join a week of moving words ... Read more >
Tags: world festivals, literary festivals, book festivals, writers festivals, sydney, australia
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 4 Apr 2009 | By abelaine | Views [135]
We arrived home in mid January. Not without our dramas though at the airport. Interestingly we have had little dramas at airports over the past long long trip. LUCKY US! However it was not so lucky this time around. We were leaving for Australia ... Read more >
Tags: home, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [93]
Well after the excitement of the Bridge Climb (every day I wake up, see the bridge and think, I climbed that!) I decided to have a couple of relaxed days, and had some time off from the city. On Friday however, Peter offered to drive down the coast ... Read more >
Tags: eucalyptus, wollongong, sydney, drive
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 18 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [192] | Comments [1]
Has to be the best thing I've done so far during my trip! Got up early to catch the ferry into the city this morning before making my way through "The Rocks" (an area of the city not actual rocks) to the Bridge Climb Centre. Once there you ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, harbour, bridge, bridgeclimb, climb, walk, view
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 16 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [185]
Yesterday I decided to take the Ferry into the city, which has to be the most impressive way of entering the harbour. The ferries opporate very regularly from two streets away at a nice little wharf, and then run directly into Circular quay in the ... Read more >
Tags: zoo, taronga, birds, harbour, sydney, opera, house
HONG KONG | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [148]
Well, I'm finally here, down in Australia, and so far its great! Set off from Heathrow to Hong Kong last Monday Night, to say it was a bumpy flight would be a bit of an understatement, unfortunately it decided to be rather rough just at the point that ... Read more >
Tags: plane, flight, heathrow, hong kong, sydney, australia
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 4 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [121]
Hi Everyone, Thought I should at least have an opening entry, righto nearly ready to get going, will be heading down to Bath on Friday Morning to stay with my Dad for the weekend which should be nice. Then off to Heathrow on Monday to fly out to Hong ... Read more >
Tags: home, leaving, bath, hongkong, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 12 Feb 2009 | By smorg | Views [108] | Comments [1]
Today after having sussed out some places yesterday, me and my travel buddy Pete went up to the Sydney Aquarium which is pretty impressive. They have all the native marine animals found around the oceans of Australia, we went to wildlife world which also ... Read more >
Tags: sydney aquarium, wildlife world, sydney tower, doyles on the beach, doyle, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 | By smorg | Views [120] | Comments [4]
We arrived safely at Heathrow Terminal 4 and got there at a world record speed thanks to Svens advanced driving techniques. After checking in we grabbed a coffee and then I made my way to the departure gate bidding farewell to my family and home. By this ... Read more >
Tags: arriving, sydney, sydney central
CANADA | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By theblackgirls | Views [310] | Comments [5]
Alot has happened since we left Singapore! When we went to board the plane from Singapore to Sydney, we were bumped to "business class." Excited at this upgrade, we had yet to realize what this all entailed... Seats large enough for 3 people, ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, beach, manly, blue mountains
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 | By smelix | Views [124]
after lots of hangning about in the park yesterday i went and hung about in the station where i met lots more lovely friendly people and then met up with kate.. we went over to her grandmas house for a family dinner for her grammys birthday,i had a great ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, opera house
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 | By danivant | Views [49]
We were six girls straight out of highschool about to embark on a trip that we would never forget. For some of us it was our first time on a plane and for all of us it would be the longest stretch away from our families and our boring hometown. Excited ... Read more >
Tags: city, sydney, bondi beach, australia, sight seeing
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 4 Oct 2008 | By george | Views [335] | Comments [4]
After Nicole arrived in Brisbane, we went for a few adventures in the city. One involved heading to Mount Coot-tha, which we eventually found, then went for a walk to some waterfalls, which we either managed to miss completely, or they were dried up ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, australia, east coast
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 24 Aug 2008 | By george | Views [475]
After Bali, arriving in the slick, ordered, affluent and surprisingly chilly world of Sydney's CBD was quite a contrast. I stayed in a rickety old pub/hotel right in the middle of the business district, just a few minutes from the Opera House and ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, canberra
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 | By jca | Views [275] | Comments [2]
Having checked out Collaroy beach YHA, in an area that seemed dead, we decided to head to Glebe –in the north of the city. It was Saturday night and we wanted to go out. Last night we arrived in the Billabong Village hostel. It’s actually warm ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 | By jca | Views [301] | Comments [1]
As we drove in it became immediately apparent that this was a big city. (Thought this could be attributed to the fact the GPS sent us round the houses in an effort to avoid any form of Toll road.) We ‘rocked-up’ (Deeds hates me saying that,) ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, ambassador van, bondi
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By laurfish | Views [205]
In brief, yet quite full: Two days of independent wandering around the city and its environs. Hands-down, my favorite parts of the city are the historic area called The Rocks, and Manly, a peninsula north of the city reached by a 30-minute ferry. (You ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, manly, the rocks
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