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<title>Travel Blog | Laura and Andy</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Laura and Andy</description>
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                    <title>Four States And A Flood</title>
                    <description>After a long year at work we managed to convince the powers that be that what we were in need of was a month long road trip. So on Boxing Day we began our journey that would take in four states other than Queensland and would eventually total 7500km39s.Some serious driving was required the first couple of days to make sure we got to spend our limited time in the places we really wanted to se</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-564271.html</link>
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                    <title>Yep Definitely Tour Guides.</title>
                    <description>In August Andy39s sister Kerry and husband Scott visited us as the second part of their honeymoon.  We commenced the feeding of Scott with a belated Christmas In July dinner accompanied by a Christmas tree and a splattering of fake snow in the winter sun. No first time trip to Oz is complete without a tour of Sydney so we headed south and met up with the jetsetters already buzzing from thei</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-552449.html</link>
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                    <title>Maybe We Should Become Tour Guides.</title>
                    <description>In January we flew down to Melbourne for a weekend of grand slam tennis.  We had tickets to the Saturday night matches which promised much with perennial underachiever but much loved Aussie favourite Lleyton Hewitt in action against Marcus Baghdatis.  The last time the two met in Melbourne the match didn't finish until 4am so the hype was huge.  We made our way down to the Rod Laver Arena whe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-482625.html</link>
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                    <title>Here there and everywhere.</title>
                    <description>July saw the arrival of Andy's parents Alan  Sheila who we picked up in the early hours from Brisbane Airport apologising for the strange poo smell that seems to linger at the airport as a special treat for new arrivals.  Over the next few weeks Alan and Sheila successfully completed their mission of trying out every coffee house in Brisbane even managing to cuddle a koala and feed some lorik</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-443657.html</link>
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                    <title>Making The Most Of It.</title>
                    <description>With the sun still shining we made the most of the warm evenings with a couple of trips to the moonlight cinema to watch some classics  Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Goonies.  A slightly bizarre but great experience sitting in a deckchair eating pizza drinking beer and getting distracted by the huge bats flying across the screen whilst possums scurry past looking for pizza crumbs. The purcha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-371371.html</link>
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                    <title>Boats Turtles and a Flaming Chook</title>
                    <description>Laura bought Andy a full day's sailing lesson for his birthday and early one Saturday he arrived at Manly marina to battle the ocean.  Despite tearing the arse out of his shorts getting onto the boat thankfully for all involved he had taken a spare pair the morning went quite well as he tacked and jibed around Moreton Bay in glorious sunshine.  Stopping for a bit of lunch as the wind dropped the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-355921.html</link>
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                    <title>The Moving Trilogy House 3.....The Quest for AirCon and a Pool</title>
                    <description>Two weeks into the search for our new house we began to realise that Neighbours creates a slightly false impression of Australian houses  they don't all have pools  Well generally only the family homes do where family seems to equate to a house fit for ten which is miles from anywhere.  However after pouring over the property listings on the net for what seemed like an eternity we finall</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-345875.html</link>
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                    <title>The Big Trip Part 2 well kind of we do have to go to work this time</title>
                    <description>So this may be the slightly less exciting sequel as the title says  we do have to work this time but as most of you know weve buggered off again. Whod have thought one little email could lead to a 20000 mile trip and a oneway trip at that  After a very sleepless night deciding whether relocating about as far round the world as you can was a good idea we started the most hectic tw</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-339618.html</link>
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                    <title>Help Theres a Spider in my Canoe</title>
                    <description>Fourteen hours overnight on a bus three and a half hours in a car one and a half hours in a 4x4 down a very wet and bumpy track and one and a half hours in a boat......300 Reais.  Arriving at an air conditioned lodge with lunch waiting......priceless.We had made it to Brazils' wetland area known as the Pantanal and were immediately introduced to our guide who was keen for us to join him on tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Pantanal/blog-265120.html</link>
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                    <title>Buenos Aires to Iguazu</title>
                    <description>Leaving the cold behind we flew north to hot and humid Buenos Aires immediately ditching the jeans for much missed shorts.  We first visited BAs biggest tourist attraction the Recoleta Cemetary.  Despite being possibly the strangest tourist attraction ever it was really quite fascinating.  As you enter you find yourself emersed in a mini city full of narrow streets where the houses are in fac</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-262017.html</link>
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                    <title>Viaje Al Fin Del Mundo 2 de 2</title>
                    <description>We arrived back in Chile at the town of Puerto Natales edging ever closer to the bottom of South America. Having survived for the previous 4 months of our trip in a uniform of shorts and tshirt we were shocked to find that the temperature had plummeted to a point where even Andy had to put on a coat.Puerto Natales is the gateway to the Torres Del Paine national park which is famous worldwide fo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-258674.html</link>
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                    <title>Viaje Al Fin Del Mundo 1 de 2</title>
                    <description>Santiago marked the start of our mainland South American leg.  After our airport pickup failed to show we grabbed a taxi and headed off in search of our hostel.  After stopping at a number of places that clearly were not our hostel the taxi driver eventually swallowed his pride and we were guided in by passers by.  We spent a couple of days exploring Santiago mostly trying to avoid getting stuc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-258662.html</link>
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                    <title>Will Someone Please Shoot The Chickens</title>
                    <description>We flew through the night from Tahiti to Easter Island and were greeted by some very thorough passport checks as we formally entered Chile about the only security they do have and received flower necklaces from our host.By chance we had arrived in time to catch the last few days of the annual Tapati Rapa Nui Easter Island Festival.  That afternoon after a loooong wait we watched the parade t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Easter-Island/blog-250415.html</link>
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                    <title>Aaaaaaand Relax</title>
                    <description>As the plane began its descent into Tahiti we caught a glimpse of what was in store for us as we flew past the neighbouring island of Moorea with its lush green jagged mountains rising from the surrounding turquoise sea.Once on the ground we were given a native flower which we duly tucked behind our ears before smugly cutting the queue and going through the EU channel as it is effectively Franc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/French-Polynesia/Huahine/blog-248684.html</link>
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                    <title>The End of Mullet Girl and Lego Man</title>
                    <description>With only two flights having landed at Queenstown on our day of departure from the South Island due to the very strong winds which made one of those planes face the wrong way only seconds before landing we were quite lucky to make it to the North Island.  We picked up our second 'El Cheapo' car and wobbled north to the Bay of Islands booking a dolphin swim for the next day.We had hoped that our</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/blog-242622.html</link>
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                    <title>Lakes Mountains Glaciers and Surprisingly Few Sheep</title>
                    <description>Australia obviously did not want to let us go us being bringers of well needed rain so after another monumental delay at Sydney airport note  it wasn't showing a delay its' departure time was just 6 hours later than shown on the tickets we made it to Queenstown and the South Island of New Zealand just in time the airport shuts when it gets dark. Now we thought that customs in Australia wer</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/blog-235642.html</link>
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                    <title>...And A Sydney New Year</title>
                    <description>We braved a taxi from the airport and to our relief he spoke English and took us straight to our penthouse apartment for the week thanks again Neil Lauren and Jamie in Bondi Junction.  After a quick kip we got the train into the city and wandered round Circular Quay trying to scope out a good spot for New Years Eve before checking in to climb the Harbour Bridge.  We did the new Discovery Cli</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-233295.html</link>
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                    <title>A Very Tassie Christmas.....</title>
                    <description>Having queued the length of Melbourne airport in the preChristmas rush we arrived in Hobart picked up our luxurious nonvan and headed to Mount Field National Park.  During the day we walked to Russell Falls and at night ventured out with a torch to try and spot some of the 'abundant wildlife' the Lonely Planet had claimed was there.  We weren't disappointed as we saw lots of pademelons some wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/blog-231476.html</link>
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                    <title>Nelson Bay to Melbourne</title>
                    <description>Now completely fed up with the rubbish weather we cut short our time on the coast and headed to the Blue Mountains.  We drove through Stockton Newcastle and Swansea passing Cardiff Dudley Liverpool and Windsor had a brief discussion regarding whether the Brett navigation system was working it was and eventually arrived in a very chilly campsite near Katoomba.  We awoke surprised the next da</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Blue-Mountains/blog-231023.html</link>
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                    <title>Bundaberg to Nelson Bay</title>
                    <description>We set off down the coast again arriving in Hervey Bay with intentions of travelling over to Fraser Island  the world's largest sand island where they don't let you on without a 4 wheel drive for Andy's 30th birthday.  Unfortunately we arrived too late to arrange this so Andy spent his birthday getting the air con in the van fixed for the 2nd time watching the safety video explaining how not</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Bundaberg/blog-229175.html</link>
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