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Getting from Adelaide to Melbourne
Book a budget flight from Adelaide to Melbourne above.
It’s a good 730 kilometers from Adelaide to Melbourne, so whichever way you decide to take, besides plane of course, is going to take a bit of your time. But, just like any movement fr
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Hobart on a Budget
As my third city to see in Australia, it was a toss up between Melbourne and Hobart. The budget airlines were competing for our business, and as Tiger managed a bit better of a deal to Tassie, we decided to save Melbourne for a time when we could afford a week
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Favorite Australian Slang: Surfie Speak
If you love Aussie slang, then you’ll probably find a bit of the surfie slang even more enjoyable. Remember how I talked about Aussie slang for beach terms just a couple weeks ago? Well, I was lucky to be given a kids magazine from my boyfriend that ha
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Getting from Brisbane to Sydney
Getting from Brisbane to Sydney and the other way is a popular path to take. Tourists in Sydney are now discovering Brisbane to be a really cool city, and it also makes for a good hub when traveling to far north Queensland, but they often have
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Planning a Trip to Australia in the Southern Fall
Summer went by in a blur this year and fall has fallen upon Australia, but that doesn’t mean that the travel season is over. Not in Australia! The travel season is year-round (that’s how cool it is here). So, what do you need to kn
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Tips for Driving Across the Nullarbor
If you tell an Australian you’re going to drive across the Nullarbor you’ll likely get one of two responses. They’ll either say, “Wow, that’s awesome! That’s something everyone should do once in their lifetime!” or, “Are you crazy? It’s so lon
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The Indian Pacific Railway: Brief History
Imagine yourself on one train that takes you in just 3 days from the east coast of Australia to the west. The fact that this epic overland journey is possible might not be so surprising. What is surprising is that the first journey of this kind, on one standar
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Broken Hill: Greener This Year Than the Last
Part of the fun of taking the Indian Pacific train across Australia are the whistle stop tours along the way. I just had my first one out at Broken Hill, and while it was mostly sitting on a bus, it was good to get a bit of fresh air and a change of scenery.
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Indian Pacific Whistle Stop Tours: Broken Hill, The Silver City
It’s a crazy long journey (65 hours to be exact) on the Indian Pacific from Sydney to Perth, so most people are going to want to get out and stretch their legs, and maybe even learn a thing or two about the town they have just arrived in. Broken Hill is t
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Indian Pacific Whistle Stop Tours: Cook, The Nullarbor Plain
Somewhere along the lines on the 2nd day of the Indian Pacific train ride, you’ll get the chance to experience a real ghost town in the outback. There are literally only a handful of people that live in Cook today, but at one time it was a pretty popular
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Indian Pacific Whistle Stop Tour: Kalgoorlie, At Night
Along the very long ride on the Indian Pacific train, the topic of the Kalgoorlie whistle stop tour was brought up a lot by some patrons on the train. “The tour is at night… should we go?” many would ask. One man I met was very adamant about
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The Indian Pacific’s Whistle Stop Tours
When you’re taking a train, specifically the Indian Pacific train, across the entire country of Australia – a ride that lasts for 65 hours – you are really going to want to get out and stretch your legs on normal ground whenever the opportunity arises. Gr
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Indian Pacific Train: Will I have Internet or Phone Connection?
I talk about the connectivity in Australia quite a bit, pretty much because it isn’t the best in the world. Having Internet in some parts of the country is a luxury still, and mobile phone connection is no different.
Last year, when I took a trip to Broke
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The Indian Pacific’s Red Gum Lounge
The key to enduring a long train trip across Australia on the Indian Pacific is to find a place you are comfortable to hang out. So, if you are in a Red Sleeper cabin, sitting knee to knee with someone right across from you and just feel like you need to stretc
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The Indian Pacific Train: Is it backpacker friendly?
The Indian Pacific Train: Is it backpacker friendly?
by there were discounts for those holding backpacker membership cards, but whether or not those were used much was beyond me. To be honest, I was a bit worrisome about doing the Indian Pacific trip at my age since all the responses I
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Have a Look Out My Window From Sydney to Perth
I spent a large part of my 65 hours on the Indian Pacific train staring out the window at the passing scenery, and I would say that the biggest response from people following along was them waiting to see my photos. Australia is a beautiful land, and I feel luc
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Perths Swan Valley Brewery Tour - Top Gun Tours
Are you a serious beer lover? If so, then chances are the countless wine country tours that head to the Swan Valley just don’t interest you. And there are plenty of those tours around, along with a few winery tours that stop at a brewery or two along the
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The Indian Pacific Train: Is it child friendly?
Before I set off, I had someone comment that they really wanted to do this cross-country train trip, but they couldn’t because they just couldn’t imagine taking children with them for 3 entire days.
I didn’t think about it before this comment
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An Ode to the Quokka
Australia has brought out the animal lover in me and bumped it up to another level. There certainly are some cool native animals in Australia, and even though my all-time favorite is probably still the rock wallaby, I recently ran into the quokka over on Rottne
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Would You Try Fish & Chips Gelato?
While on my stay in Perth, I met up with a couple of friends (Heather, Adam and Nicole) and they told me a story of a gelato mishap — one involving a flavor so preposterous I thought it was made up. However, hearing that it was truly disgusting added some
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