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                    <title>A lot can happen in a year</title>
                    <description>Exactly one year ago today having bundled up nearly all my belongings into storage I joined more than half a million other New Zealanders in the socalled lucky country. I can39t believe how quickly it39s gone.I didn39t know what the future would hold with a work contract for one year so I set myself a goal to see as much as I could in my year. I39ve visited every State and Terri</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Potts-Point/blog-767957.html</link>
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                    <title>It all goes wrong or was it a blessing in disguise</title>
                    <description>My entire trip to the Northern Territory was built around visiting Kakadu National Park. I booked the 2 day camping tour before I settled on airfares hotel rooms or any other activity. I had a few reservations about my backpacking tour which was with the same company that I booked the Litchfield tour through and it wasn39t just having to spend the night in a rented sleeping bag. Tom and Dan</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Kakadu-National-Park/blog-783229.html</link>
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                    <title>In a while crocodile</title>
                    <description>Landing in Darwin it was hard to believe I was in the same country. It was midnight but still 27 degrees and steamy with it. Of course more sensible people than I would have looked at a map before getting on the plane. It turns out that Sydney is over 3000 kms away. I might as well have landed in Indonesia.Day one was a trip to Litchfield National Park only around 130kms from Darwin. I seemed </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/City-of-Darwin/blog-782662.html</link>
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                    <title>Beef pho and spring rolls</title>
                    <description>One of my first overseas trips was to Vietnam in December 1996. Like much of my travel it was a somewhat random decision and I hadn39t done much in the way of research beforehand. So I was open to lots of advice. As it turns out all the advice I received was from people who had never been there but all assured me confidently that I was bound to get ill it39s too hot and I would most ce</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Cabramatta/blog-780976.html</link>
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                    <title>Tasmania part 3 Gourmet Goodness</title>
                    <description>On one of our first nights in Tasmania when we were still in Hobart we started watching The Biggest Loser on television and became inexplicably drawn to this reality TV show. After a week in Tasmania we may well become contestants.Before I came to Tasmania I had noticed my local supermarket seemed to be sourced entirely from Tasmania. This was one of the reasons I was looking forward to visiting</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Launceston/blog-779398.html</link>
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                    <title>Tasmania part 2 Natural Wonders</title>
                    <description>Tasmanian Devils and other animalsDriving down to Port Arthur you go through the small town of Dunalley just before crossing a narrow isthmus and heading further down the Tasman Peninsula. It was only as we got to the small township that I remembered that this area was in the direct path of some fearsome bushfires earlier this year. We couldn39t believe our eyes when we saw the devastation lef</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Bay-of-Fires/blog-779210.html</link>
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                    <title>Tasmania part 1 Convicts  Colonists</title>
                    <description>I39ve been looking forward to coming to Tasmania for ages. Firstly it gives me boasting rights as now I39ve visited every State and every Territory in Australia. Secondly it seems to me when I39m grocery shopping that all the good quality produce that I buy seems to come from Tasmania  salmon beef lamb cheese apples...yum However my first introduction to Tasmania had more to do </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Hobart/blog-778797.html</link>
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                    <title>Daytripping and staying delusional </title>
                    <description>One of the great things about living in a new city and one as big as Sydney is that every weekend I can visit somewhere new and enjoy a new adventure or experience. At times even just supermarket shopping can offer a different experience  cue the time I got excited and bought kangaroo steak for dinner Day tripping around the city and beyond helps keep alive the dream that living in Australia i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-767001.html</link>
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                    <title>Celebrating Straya Day...but not in an ocean bar</title>
                    <description>It was a long weekend celebrating Australia Day so with three days up my sleeve I decided to get out of town. This time I took the train up to Newcastle on the promise of beautiful beaches and a laid back cafe culture  also known as my favourite things. Newcastle is not too far from Sydney so an easy train trip. Given most of my other weekends away have been further afield and required a pl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Newcastle/blog-760724.html</link>
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                    <title>Sydney celebrates and sizzles</title>
                    <description>The view was the real draw card in deciding to rent my apartment and this view came into its own on New Year39s Eve. I had invited some friends to dinner and this turned out to be the perfect way to see in the new year  good food friends plenty of champagne  not to mention having an excellent view of the festivities. I particularly liked that unlike thousands of others there was no queuin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-764677.html</link>
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                    <title>Road trip to Orange</title>
                    <description>It was a new year and my old travelling buddy Lucy was in town so what better excuse to take to the road The selected destination was Orange about 3  hours west of Sydney in an area famous for wine and food. Sounded perfect to me I was quite small when I heard that there was a town called Orange and as a child I thought that this was extraordinary  a town named after a fruit Turns o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Orange/blog-764563.html</link>
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                    <title>Sydney's Turkish delight</title>
                    <description>One of the things that I have loved about Sydney is its multiculturalism. At a recent team function with my work colleagues I discovered that our relatively small team39s collective background includes Lebanon Syria Italy Bangladesh Pakistan Hungary Latvia Ireland Scotland England not to mention New Zealand. With so many different cultures it means that the food on offer is wonderfu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Auburn/blog-760013.html</link>
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                    <title>Lost in translation</title>
                    <description>Living in Sydney is not so different to living in New Zealand. Sometimes it feels like I39ve just moved to a much bigger city with better weather down the road. The cultures are very similar and we speak the same language...most of the time. But then again there are some key cultural and language differences which can trip you up.Firstly the rugby. Where I39m from if you say you are watchin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Potts-Point/blog-739973.html</link>
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                    <title>The Killer Snake</title>
                    <description>Since I have been in Australia I39ve kept my work colleagues amused with my stupid questions about snakes. Before I headed up to the Blue Mountains to go walking I asked David what to do if I saw a snake. I was actually serious  do I run Do I stay still David thought this was the funniest thing he39d ever heard. As it happens we never left the pavement so it wasn39t a concern. Howeve</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Margaret-River/blog-748543.html</link>
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                    <title>Wine food friends....</title>
                    <description>It was a long weekend in Sydney which for me means time to explore a new destination. So I spun the wheel.....and up popped Adelaide. It39s somewhere that I39ve wanted to visit for some time based on the rave reviews from friends and family who39ve visited there.I also fired off an email to find some friends to join me and so it was a real treat to be joined in Adelaide by Lucy from W</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Barossa-Valley/blog-747802.html</link>
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                    <title>Slices of Sydney</title>
                    <description>Sydney is a truly gorgeous city and I never tire of the stunning views I am lucky enough to see every day. Generally speaking I don39t have the opportunity to travel much beyond a thirty minute walk of the city centre however whenever I get the chance to venture further afield I leap at it.... And leap I did when offered the chance to spend a day on the harbour with my parents when they visite</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Potts-Point/blog-732175.html</link>
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                    <title>From the red centre to the power centre</title>
                    <description>Last weekend I was basking in the heat surrounded by the red earth of central Australia. This weekend I was trying to stay warm in the Australian centre of power. Apparently Canberra became the seat of government because Sydney and Melbourne both wanted to be the capital and couldn39t agree where it should be so as a compromise they came up with Canberra somewhere in between the two. And tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/Canberra/blog-735418.html</link>
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                    <title>Alice in Wonderland</title>
                    <description>Alice Springs has always been somewhere I wanted to see. When I was little I used to love the old TV shows like The Flying Doctor and of course A Town like Alice. Usually the problem with having a romantic notion of a destination is that it never quite lives up to expectation. In the case of Alice Springs I feared that would be the case when I first arrived however by the time I lef</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-735297.html</link>
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                    <title>Between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
                    <description>What kind of nutter would book themselves on a day trip which involves travelling 1100 kms on a bus Me for starters and apparently a whole bunch of other people too.So at 6.00am I was waiting for the bus outside my hotel. It was freezing in Alice Springs about 3 degrees although the locals tell me thats good last week it was 2 degrees. The bus finally rolled by and I joined a coach load o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Uluru/blog-735269.html</link>
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                    <title>Winter days in Sydney</title>
                    <description>Two months in Sydney and it39s gone in a flash. When I first moved here I thought I would be able to update this blog with all sorts of interesting adventures however in reality all I can boast of is having found somewhere to live organised some furniture and gone to work. A lot. However I have no complaints at all and I am making new discoveries every day. I have a gorgeous apartment in Po</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Potts-Point/blog-725516.html</link>
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