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Getting there............................

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 | By gypsy_hannah | Views [1202]

Ok.......... this was it!!! After spending 3 months planning it and organising all of my stuff I had my plane ticket in one hand and my luggage in the other (I actually had it all around my neck as well but that doesn't sound quite as good!). The last ... Read more >

Tags: airports, duty free, planes, travelling

A Get Away To Stuarts Point

Fri, 2 Sep 2016 | By craigmarch | Views [970]

After each spending months on the road for business, my brother Greg and I needed a break. Flights, hotels, rental cars and stuffy meetings and conferences had taken their toll, and we just wanted to "get away from it all" for a few days. A co-worker ... Read more >

Tags: australia, camping, campsite, holiday, new south wales, nsw, vacation

I'VE FIGURED OUT WHY THEY CALL IT THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 | By timmyski | Views [845]

Because there is a road and an ocean and it is phenomenally GREAT! Here is my average day here: Wake up and drink coffee while staying on top of my editing. Get too hot and so run down to the sea for a swim. Eat some fresh fish caught on the local ... Read more >

Tags: adventure, australia, campervan, great ocean road, oz, road trip, road trip, van-tastic adventures, vantastic, victoria

Victoria- Grampians, Ancestors and Spas

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 | By johnsteel | Views [684]

April, 2016 This trip had 3 goals to have a meal at the highly rated Dunkeld Royal Hotel restaurant; visit old gold mining towns and Ballarat where Susan’s Steel family began; return to Daylesford and have a spa. 1. Dunkeld is a small village at ... Read more >

Tags: ballarat, daylesford, dunkeld, grampians

Observations

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 | By rosibud | Views [626]

I was sitting in a sushi bar yesterday having a quick lunch on my own and I started hearing the conversation of the two 30 something girls sitting next to me. They were talking about office politics and the whole snarky comments, bitching and back ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Addendum

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 | By quando | Views [529]

I have kept a record of all the money I have spent on this holiday, including airfares, insurances, car hire etc right down to the shuttle bus to the airport in Brisbane. All money spent while away came off my travel card so an easy record there.... Read more >

its so cold...

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By jess_dan | Views [504] | Comments [7]

hello from freezing austria!! we caught the train today from venice to salzburg..a 7 hour journey in total. The train ride through austria was beautiful though. We can see snow on the mountains and can def feel the cold. we had taken the amazing weather ... Read more >

Prepping

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 | By mlisaho | Views [444]

So, it's 10 weeks to my big trip. Exactly 10 weeks from today in fact, and I still have so much to work out. I've put a deposit on the flights, deposit for Contiki Alaska, paid for the Craniosacral workshop and ordered the books. But there's so much ... Read more >

...und taeglich gruesst der Kakadu

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 | By the-white-rabbit | Views [397] | Comments [1]

...wie bis dato jeden morgen wurden wir auch heute aus einer Mischung von Baulaerm, Kakaduschreien (als Rufe kann man das nicht bezeichnen was diese Tiere von sich geben koennen) und einem laessigen Trubel auf dem Weg vor dem Hostel geweckt. Erst mal ... Read more >

Journey to the Never Never

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By katielittle | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry

“Have you been to the Never Never Creek?” I keep getting asked this question by the locals in Bellingen, a small country town a few hours drive north of Sydney. January in Australia is stinking hot, and as I pull over into the gravelled car park the dust ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship