I couldn't come all the way to Australia and not see the Capital. Well to be honest i wish i hadn't! There is not much to do or see in Canberra. Canberra was a purposely built capital city. It's rather strange, very clinical and a bit like a ghost town. Where were all the people?! Not really much to say about it really. We stayed at a very basic motel but all we really need is a bed i suppose. We arrived at 9pm Friday night and just watched a bit of tv before going to bed. It had been a [View Full Entry]

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We done a runner from our hostel in Mildura cos we owed them money!! Ha ha! Don't worry tho it was only $16 so i'm pretty sure we're not one of Australia's Most Wanted!! Anyway, we flew down to Melbourne from a tiny airport (maybe the same size as Dundee's!). We were meant to be getting the bus from Mildura to Melbourne bus as usual we left it too late and it was sold out so had to fly down on a rather small 74 seater plane! We stayed with my family at their house in Endeavour Hills which is just [View Full Entry]

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It's been a while since i've put a blog up but really i haven't been up to much lately. We are now in Mildura which is in Victoria. The reason we came here was for work. We've been here over a month now but haven't made much money! Usually i make enough to cover rent and food for the week if i'm lucky!! We had a couple of days without work when we first arrived but then we were over the moon when we were told there was work available if we wanted it. Of course we wanted it, but we [View Full Entry]

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We spent just over a week in Darwin. It was so hot there and very humid. Most of our days were spent at the library, free internet so had to make good use of it. When we weren't there we were usually found at the hostel across the road from ours using their facilities, the bar! Happy hour (or hours 4-7pm) jugs of ice cold beer for $8. Friends from apple picking Becky and Ailbhe stayed there so they joined us every afternoon for a few drinks too. Thursdays and Sundays were the famous Mindil Beach Market. We headed along there [View Full Entry]

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We left Bundaberg and headed up to Rockhampton, which is the beef capital of Australia. We spent 5 nights in a little hostel run by Robby, lovely little woman. One night we headed down to the river to have a bbq, cheap snags and even cheaper goon. Crocs have been spotted in the river so we decided to throw down some sausages but unfortunately they did not take our bait. It's ok we were too far up for them to get us if one did happen to appear. Me and Jen went to see Wolverine one afternoon, which we both loved! [View Full Entry]

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We managed to get a campervan relocation from Cairns to Darwin. We don't have to pay for it cos the company need the van in Darwin. All we had to pay was the petrol and then they also give us $210 petrol money back. 6 days to travel 3000km. We had to head back down to Townsville cos that is the only route we were allowed to take cos the other roads are too bad. We didn't quite make it down to Townsville the first day cos it got too dark and we're not insured to drive at night, too many [View Full Entry]

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After Rainbow Beach we headed a further 2 hours up the coast to Hervey Bay. We booked ourselves into the Woolshed Backpackers, it was a great place to stay. Me, Ross and Jen all had single beds, a great change from bunk beds. The first night we had the room to ourselves and took full advantage of the tv/dvd in the room. We took a trip to the local Woolworths to buy some cheapo noodles and then to the bottle shop to get some cider to enjoy whilst watching some DVD's. We booked our 2 day guided tour to Fraser Island [View Full Entry]

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Thought i'd better write a blog and keep everyone up to date cos i've not been here for a bit. I flew down to Sydney from Brisbane on 7th April to meet my Dad and Elaine. We stayed in Sydney for a few nights in a nice little guest house at Potts Point which is beside Kings Cross. This place was luxury to me! I had a single room all to myself. I thought i might take bad being in a room on my own since i hadn't done that since October but it was brilliant! I was the tour guide [View Full Entry]

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My apple picking career is over for the time being! Not sure how i will survive with not getting up at 3.15am any more!! I've had a great 5 weeks but i'm very happy to be leaving, i need a rest. What i'll miss the most is our Saturday nights down the local pub. Last Saturday we had a pj party. I donned my pj's, messed my hair up and smudged mascara all over my face, what a pretty site! I drank way too much cider as usual and felt rather rough Sunday morning. Made loads of great friends here, Room [View Full Entry]

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Anyone who knows me well enough should know that my favourite apple is a Granny Smith....well i hate them now!! Eventually after a few weeks of sitting around Brisbane spending way to much money we got offered a job apple picking. Obviously we took it, how hard could it be.....very!! We took a bus from Brisbane and 3 hours later we were dropped off at the Big Apple in a place called Thulimbah (that is where the orchard is). 10 of us started together that day, only 4 of us left (not bad going for 4 weeks of work). We joined [View Full Entry]

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