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Travel Journals: Surfers Paradise, Australia


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Australia/Malaysia 2000

Friday 4 August 2000 Back on the road again. New bus driver - Young Joe Young. This fella was off his rocker! The "put your seatbelts on" signal consisted of 2 rings of a bicycle bell followed quickly by "SHIT! PUT YOUR SEATBELTS ON!!...

Member: Louise
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World Travels 2007

Arrived into Melbourne today by train. After the tram journey to St Kilda, we tried to locate the backpackers. Walking around and getting more and more pissed off for not knowing where we are, we finally found the place and booked in. Entering our r...

Member: Morne Deborah
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Australia: Home sweet home

Today was the first day that we weren't together. I went up to the Sunshine Coast to say goodbye to my family, while Alberto stayed with my dad and 2 sisters: Lea and Jaana... quality time with the in-laws! First stop was to take Holly the dog back to ...

Member: Shay
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Brisbane 2006

Day one: it's late and I'm tired and won't be writing much; but it's nice to have arrived here in one piece. Brisbane is a lovely city and I'm really looking forward to the next week. I haven't figured out a way to get pictures uploaded just yet, bec...

Member: Mike
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Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

Member: Kate and Jonny
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Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

Member: FisherTours and BoothTravel
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Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

Member: Alanna
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Round the world trips 2004

After being taken to heathrow we flwe straight out to bangkok where we stayed in the 5star Marriott Hotel on the banks of the river, it was beautiful. After meeting vic's dad we did tours of the markets at chatuchak and sala daeng. The bargains were am...

Member: Jon
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Round the World Trip

I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...

Member: jonathan and bekki
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Do you come from a land Down under?

Sept. 2005: The trip over here went well, although I almost missed my early birdy morning flight from Helsinki to Vienna, because of luggage check-in problems. Later I got in trouble with the airport police in Vienna, because the number in my Visa ...

Member: funsoaker
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Australia

After Cervantes, we cruised on down through Perth (which will be our final Australian destination) to the funky and very pretty port city of Fremantle where we left Drew and Alistair for a few days while we continued further south. We plan to stay in F...

Member: Scott and Jenni
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Australia (and a bit of Asia and Indonesia too) Summer 2006

After being met at the airport by someone from our hostel, we checked in, admired the room and then went into town for a wander around. It was notably warmer in Alice than in Sydney, however, town it would seem is more like a village. After an hour we ...

Member: Kellie And Jon
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Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

Member: Justin
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Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

Member: Sam
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Australia 2005

I arrived in Sydney on the 12th of February and spent 4 months travelling up the East coast to Cairns. ...

Member: Emily
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Worlds tallest residential building

We went to the Q1 today it was just amazing! the view is wicked we were 322.5metres up on the 77th and 78th floor 360 degrees view we could see coolangatta and byron bay aswell, it's that big that we couldn't get the whole building in the pic, so it's ...

Member: Tracy
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Previous Trips

Went to Toowoomba, Australia for Grandads 99th Birthday. From Toowoomba I caught the bus down to Currumbin where I had a beer at the surf club and then taxied out to Coolangatta airport to meet up with Tim Hurley. Bused back into Surfers Paradise and...

Member: Jonathan
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Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

Member: Lindsey
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