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Our journey in the land of the Kiwi’s began in the North Island when we flew into Auckland. Home for four weeks was our fantastic upgraded Apollo camper van that we nicknamed Vinnie. He was lush! Stupidly, we hadn’t done any research before we arrived, so after stocking up on our essentials at the nearest … Continue reading
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The day we left Sydney it was 27 degrees, we did a 12-hour overnight bus to Melbourne that arrived at 7am and it felt like we’d arrived at the South Pole. Well, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but considering we’ve been travelling for nearly ten months and haven’t needed more than a hoody for warmth, … Continue reading
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Being a backpacker in sumptuous Sydney definitely takes its toll on your bank balance, it’s one of the coolest cities in the world and also one of the most expensive. Having splurged everywhere else down the East Coast, Sydney was the last stop on our itinerary, so we definitely didn’t wanna miss out on anything. … Continue reading
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When we booked our East Coast trip we had to shuffle the whole thing around because our original arrival into Byron Bay coincided with the Blues Fest kicking off and all accommodation was fully booked. We arrived a few days later and we were still greeted with stragglers from the festival, the whole town had … Continue reading
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We don’t know what we were expecting when we jumped off the bus at Surfer’s Paradise, but it certainly wasn’t a built up town with a kebab shop on every corner. Checking out the area, we soon realised that this wasn’t the paradise we’d imagined, although the beach was pretty, the atmosphere wasn’t that of … Continue reading
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Travelling down the East Coast of Australia can be very exhausting, especially when you have an itinerary to stick to, so by the time we reached Noosa, we were definitely ready for some chill time. On our first day there we made use of our hostel’s swimming pool, but it was quite small and a … Continue reading
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Rainbow Beach was our next stop down the East Coast, we arrived into the tiny town very early morning and soon realised that the main pull for coming here, was the trips to Fraser Island, otherwise the place didn’t have much to offer. We decided to do our tour with a company called Dingo’s and … Continue reading
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The lovely little Town of 1770 sits quietly on the Discovery Coast of Queensland, Australia. Not being one of the most popular stop offs for the thousands of backpackers passing by everyday, we are so glad that we made the effort to go and see what it was all about. We got dropped off at … Continue reading
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Swirling shores, ice blue waters, pristine white sand and views to die for… The Whitsunday’s right? Wrong!! We arrived at the beautiful Airlie Beach, the sun was shining and the hostel was pretty damn good too. We checked in and settled down for the night with a free BBQ and outdoor movie night because the … Continue reading
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Having already visited Mission Beach to do our skydive, we left Cairns to start our journey down the East Coast and headed back down there for a second time. This time we had planned to do another adrenalin filled activity in the form of white water rafting. We made our way to the Tully River … Continue reading
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The one question everyone asks when you come to the East Coast of Australia is… ‘Have you seen the Great Barrier Reef?’ Our answer is, yes of course! In fact, we have seen it from above and below. Our first experience was, without a doubt, the best thing we have ever done. We decided to … Continue reading
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We wanted our whole trip to be fun and play, but after blowing a months budget in just two weeks of being in Australia, we thought that doing a little bit of regional work might be a good idea to save some money. We had a few friends doing farm work and living in a … Continue reading
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Getting ourselves lost and waking up in Walpole was a good thing, if we had of continued on to Albany in the night we would have missed out on some amazing tourist spots. A ten minute drive down the road, in between Walpole and Denmark we found the ‘Valley of the Giants’, a forest full … Continue reading
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So… Our southwest Australian road trip began when we met up with our 6 European travel buddies (Clemence, Saif, Sylvie, Dimitri, Christophe and Marijke) at Belvidere camp site near Mandurah. To get there, we drove about 2 hours south of Fremantle in our burgundy Toyota Camry until we reached Leschenault Conservation Park, we picked a … Continue reading
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Landing in Perth was the beginning of the second leg of our honeymoon adventure and we are planning to spend the next few months down under. We hadn’t heard great reviews about Western Australia from fellow travellers, but we definitely didn’t want to miss it out and we wanted to make our own minds up … Continue reading
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We nearly there yet? 