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Wed, 6 Jun 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2571]
We have joined up with a fringe of Australian society, the "Grey Nomads," people of a "certain age" who spend a goodly part of the year traveling around Oz in their caravans, spending their kids' inheritance. Many are retired, ... Read more >
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 | By stowaway | Views [2038] | Comments [5]
Hiya everyone, Well I'm back in Australia(for those who didn't already know this). I survived the chills of London and the multitude of customs inspections with my shoes, backpack, shish pipe and mandola intact. The tube train broke down on the way ... Read more >
Tags: customs, heathrow, home, mandola, rockstar, sydney
Mon, 7 May 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1365]
The local indigenous people recognize six seasons but there really are only two, "The Wet" and "The Dry." April, the end of the Wet, averages one inch of rain per day, July just a few tenths for the entire month. May is somewhere ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 | By ivanci | Views [1160]
Eight
months has passed since our return from RWT-1 and what a life here at Blue Bay
it was! Living in small one bedroom unit just 300m from beautiful beach was
comfortably easy and we had no difficulties to adjust to such lifestyle… but
it’s ... Read more >
Fri, 2 Sep 2016 | By craigmarch | Views [975]
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
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 | By annarisa | Views [972] | Comments [6]
...my very good friend Anna N! Congratulations!! Your prize will arrive in the mail shortly (when I say shortly, I mean some time before Christmas, I am not in the least convinced of the efficiency of the Italian postal service :)
Thanks to ... Read more >
Sun, 15 Jan 2017 | By johnsteel | Views [688]
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
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 | By europe2013 | Views [556]
Departed Siam Reap for Phnom Penh. On the way we stopped at a roadside stall where we tried a local lunch of cooked sticky rice in a bamboo stick - it was really yummy. Then on to a local rural school. The children did not speak English and referred ... Read more >
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 | By leah | Views [548]
After spending the past two Australia Days in Vail surrounded by raucous Aussies skiing around the mountain with Aussie flags tied to their backs like capes and singing ridiculous songs at the top of their lungs, I finally experienced the day in its ... Read more >
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
He stared benignly at me unblinking and unmoved, despite my being just centimetres away from his body. The words of that old Peter Pan song played over in my mind: “Never smile at a crocodile.” As his belly hovered above my head, the close up view I got ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By tinaw | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I have always enjoyed photography since I took it up as a subject years ago at school. I have been fortunate enough to be able to travel over the years whilst study at university and now as I am a Physical Equational Teacher I can still fit in travel ...
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Tags: travel photography scholarship 2012
Thu, 1 Nov 2007 | By georgina | Photo Gallery
test desc
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Fri, 9 Nov 2007 | By raspberrybullets | Photo Gallery
food and stuff
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 | By jca | Photo Gallery
Me
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Fri, 26 Dec 2008 | By wills_77 | Photo Gallery
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
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