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We are on a roll now so here are some more pictures as we are playing catch up! These are from our route from the south coast of Victoria all the way up to Australia's capital Canberra. Very underated and although there is a lot less going on than in Sydney we had an enjoyable couple of days there. A special thanks goes out to Geoff who literally pulled over in traffic noticing we were frantically looking at maps in a lay-by. He then proceeded to drive to the caravan park we were looking for so we could follow him. What [View Full Entry]

T and STEVEO - TERESA & STEVE | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 23rd 2008 | 45 Views | [diary=279189]

Everton map
Everton bus stop
Steveo and sign

Australia and Canada
Australia and Canada
You can get this photo of the Australian and Canadian flags from the Canadian Embassy.
Canberra, the capital of Australia, does not usually make the list of 'Places I'd like to see in Australia' however I eagerly accepted Matt's offer to meet him while he was there on business. He did live in Canberra for a bit and thought we could spend the weekend seeing the sites. It's a 3 hour drive South of Sydney or a really short flight. I chose to fly Friday night and drive back with Matt but got teased since the only one who normally flies to Canberra is the Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd)! The only hitch to this plan was [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 14th 2008 | 65 Views | [diary=286305]

Canadian Ground
Parliament Building
Lake George2

Taking a break from the packing
Taking a break from the packing
Sandra at the top of the Telstra Tower
The packers are filling boxes in our apartment as I type... it's time to say goodbye to Canberra. A couple of pictures of Canberra in autumn - the next installment will be from the Great Ocean Road en route to Russ and Kate's fabulous wedding next week! [View Full Entry]

Sandra Simon - Sandra and Simon | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 14th 2008 | 28 Views | [diary=275959]

The view from the top of the Telstra Tower
Cockatoo!
The Carillion at Sunset

Hey everybody! so i've made it back from the 2 week holiday, and they were great times. me and 3 other girls from res (including Liv) road tripped it up to Manly beach just outside of Sydney. we stayed on a beach front hostel and went out to the local club for a night, and the club was actually classy, not what u'd expect in a small town. the next day we caught some rays, and met up with another friend from res. we spent the day exploring sydney, then we headed to our hostel in Kings Cross, the red light [View Full Entry]

Jojo11 - Jordyn Mackonka | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 25th 2008 | 23 Views | [diary=269779]


Day 291 (12.1.08) We left early in the morning thanking Valerie and Bruce once again for their hospitality whilst being entertained by two very friendly lorikeets on the banister. A quick stop in the suburb of Balmain saw us collecting our passengers Kayleigh and Spencer who’d be joining us for the trip to Melbourne. The trip to Canberra passed quickly as we sped down the Hume Highway stopping only to visit the three-storey-high Big Merino Sheep (we thought it only right that Spencer, as a Welshman, visit this ‘attraction’). Just before we arrived in Canberra we pas [View Full Entry]

mark and chrissie - Mark and Chrissie Hayward | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 29th 2008 | 141 Views | [diary=266868]

The Big Merino
Chrissie in the gym
Chamber of parliment

Heading towards Melbourne We finally started our camper van journey yesterday and it is awesome. We went to the Blue Mountains and saw the sunset at the Three Sisters. After going through a lot of small cities, villages and look-out-points we arrived in Canberra. Sleeping, cooking and eating is very nice and cosy in our small "home"! We even stopped at the Honeymoon-look-out near the Three Sisters to cook our first spaghetti!! Auf dem Weg nach Melbourne Gestern sind wir nun endlich mir dem Campervan losgefahren ... und es ist super! zuerst waren wir in den Blue Mount [View Full Entry]

saskagretl - Margarete & Nicolas | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 13th 2008 | 78 Views | [diary=265949]

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We got to Canberra at 5am after our first trip on The Greyhound Bus (a hop-on, hop-off bus that runs 24 hours). In the interest of saving money we'd decided to take the night bus to save on a night's accomodation. Unfortunately, we hadn't been prepared for the air conditioning to be blowing full-strength all night and froze the entire way (we were in shorts and had no warm jumpers with us on the bus). We, therefore, didn't get much sleep. Hopefully we can blame this for what happened next. When we were in Melbourne we bought a really cheap second-hand [View Full Entry]

Mel and Laura - Amelia and Laura | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 18th 2008 | 25 Views | [diary=274959]

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mar 27 flight day freezing cold nite. turned to cold bright day. cold still. entered high court five members sitting on matters including tax. most enjoyable after chill lakeside wait for nine fortyfive opening. barby and pack. what would i need? or forget. pre flight angst. parking em's front yard and walk to fourfifty aged ride to airport. first stoped in pine park heard the chortle of some birds, call of the crow. canbra time. cries of pink galah. cyclers and walkers. traffic in the backdrop. mar 28 time with kate. dinner at sati's mother india restaurant. mar 29 breakfast with [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 8th 2008 | 24 Views | [diary=264148]


Hey everybody! I just got back from my weekend surf trip in Sydney and it was unreal! At first i was pretty nervous about getting into the ocean with the whole shark business and what not, especially after one of the surf leaders told us that a record breaking tiger shark was caught in the bay :S, but they assured us that it was a freak occurance and we were perfectly safe. We got to the camp on friday night, there was a group of 9 of us from the university including me and liv. We had the night to chill [View Full Entry]

Jojo11 - Jordyn Mackonka | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 7th 2008 | 11 Views | [diary=263868]


Dear All, After 3months and 1 week my time is the farm is over. I made it!! Very happy about it, met great people, learned how to roll cigarettes (I know smoking is bad but I smoke less cus sometimes I just can’t be bothered Rolling) and enjoy the peace and quiet of the place. But one thing is sure: I will not eat tomatoes before a long time, I know everything about all the sizes of tomatoes and I may even sort them by size in the supermarket: small- small medium, medium, large medium and large, semis, red or sauce [View Full Entry]

AmmAroundTheWorld - Amélie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 6th 2008 | 68 Views | [diary=263512]

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