Destination: Australia

Left? Right?

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By kristelamanda | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry

The sun is setting - red, pink, blue. It is only six o’clock, but night time in Australia arrives early. Five people in a car, no talking. Tense. Rewind: Two hours earlier. Happy talking. Adventure. “We rented a 4x4 for this exact reason!” Driving through ... Read more >

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Between rocks in a deep place

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By travell-iv-ing | Views [341] | Scholarship Entry

As the first drops of rain fell, I looked up at the protruding ledge. The same ledge that paved the way out and effortlessly poured half the Pilbara’s rainfall over my head. As I analysed my situation I couldn't help but think “how did I end up here”? ... Read more >

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My 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip entry

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By ozdiary | Views [214] | Scholarship Entry

I will never forget the day that I arrived in Sydney, the city that would have begun the most beautiful experience of my life and that would have changed it forever. After a few days I have understood the the Australia and Australians belong to a special ... Read more >

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When you wish upon a Northern Light

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By patches_mcgee | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry

I’m floating in warm, opaque blue water; snow is falling on my face; strong, viking hands are massaging my back from below. It looks like another planet, it feels like a dream but I’m awake in a heaven on Earth known as the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. This ... Read more >

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Photos: Mirna

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By mirna | Photo Gallery

Dust, check; flies, check; stifling heat, check.

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sylviemcnab | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry

At first glance, you may think that you have landed on the moon or perhaps that you have entered the film set of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi. In fact, you have arrived in Outback Australia, a place where the term ‘wide open space’ is taken to a whole new ... Read more >

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A momentary overload

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ellenransley | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry

It’s a gloomy Monday afternoon in Paris, and I am lost. It hadn’t been my intention to leave the hotel and get lost within five minutes, but that was all it took, one wrong turn and I was unexpectedly exploring. Rather than panic, I embraced it. My ... Read more >

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20 minutes under the ocean

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By reef | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry

I’ll never forget the day I met the Great Barrier Reef, the biggest coral reef in the world. A habitat of thousands of kilometres with living creatures, breathing, reproducing, constructing a world under the water is something that you can say. But you ... Read more >

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To see in the Dark

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kavlar | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry

Blinking up into the wan darkness, I realised with mild distaste that this was the first time I had really seen the stars. Lying in the dense form of my swag in the anonymity of the outback, I hadn’t appreciated the encroachment of light on our ability ... Read more >

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visited another continent of Beauty Australia

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By fikriadventure | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry

It was about ten years ago, when my dad got scholarship to took his post-graduate study in Adelaide , South Australia . As a little boy i was at that time, it has been a wonderful time for me in that city. Previously , city i was came were a city of a ... Read more >

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Time Commitment Issues

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By redrover | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry

Dear Homework, This is going to be hard for me, so difficult in fact that I couldn't face you in person. This is why you are reading this letter. You have been there for me, teaching me everything that I know... but I feel like we are just two parallel ... Read more >

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Falling for Alice.

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ellibelle | Views [296] | Scholarship Entry

Prologue: I lay awake one night, alone with my thoughts and totally caught up in the raw emotion of happy and sad – fascinated, excited and equally daunted by life. I wonder how I came to be in such a unique part of the world and I wonder why. I question ... Read more >

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Weekends Away

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By chapter73 | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry

Rain is a funny thing. The annual rainfall for the city of Sydney is roughly 128 mm, which for a city of 25 square km isn’t too shabby when taken into consideration. What was shabby I thought was the first time we go to Sydney was that it had all decided ... Read more >

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A Happy Place

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ktlnlange | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry

"How did I end up here?" I think as I tap my pen on the desk's edge. It is only an hour into my day and I am downtrodden by the fact that I have not seen sunlight. This is my life. Awake before the winter sun, I left home while it was still dark and will ... Read more >

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The First Time I Walked On This Island

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By joseph_diskett | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry

Being a Brit growing up on that little island, Steve Irwin, Olivia Newton-John and Crocodile Dundee were my only insight into Australia. So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that my entire family would be immigrating to this strange, far-off ... Read more >

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