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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival will celebrate its 29th year in 2015 and is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival. The Festival was launched in 1987 by Barry Humphries and Peter Cook. Twenty-eight festivals later, with attendances of over 630,000, it has grown to be Australia’s largest cultural event – selling more tickets than any other Australian Festival. We’ve included everything you need to know about the festival and will be giving away a double pass to see Alex Edelman on Tuesday 31 March ( Show Read more
Tragedy has struck German Wings Flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The A320 was on its 2nd flight of the day, having earlier left Dusseldorf for Barcelona. The Flight 4U9595 crashed in the French Alps The Black box has been found Weather in set to deteriorate which will hinder search efforts The captain had more than 10 years of experience and had clocked up more than 6,000 flight hours on the Airbus model. There is uncertainty over weather a distress call was made A school party was on board Search efforts have been suspended overnight due to the difficulty of Read more
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Everyones looking for work, here’s four hot jobs exclusively at Working Holiday Jobs. If you don’t like what you see simply check out the job board any time! Native German, French and English Speakers Needed in Sydney Pay – $22.78 – $25.75/hr Modern Call Centre Free private company gym & classes Task include responding and following up on inbound customer enquiries by e-mail, telephone, or chat in a timely manner. Great working environment Daily perks such as coffee, soft drinks, fruit etc. *Backpackers, Australian citizens, Students can apply Apply Now Event Staff Needed in Melbourne Pay between $22-25/hr Hours usually Read more
If you’re anything into photography and just about to dive deep into the buzzing atmosphere of Victorias capital, this roundup will give you the right hints to capture most of its highlights picture perfect. Melbourne is certainly known for its great coffee, arty attitude, alternative suburbs and, of course, for driving the traveler mad with it’s ever unpredictable weather. They say you get 4 seasons within a single day and it’s almost true. So make sure to layer up. But given all this, where should you drag your camera to capture the very essence of this city when you are short Read more
As an American, cricket is fairly hard to come by- unless you’re talking about the insect, of course. While traveling in Europe, I met my boyfriend, an Englishman with a love of the game. Over the past three years, I’ve watched statistics float across the TV screen, heard both exclamations of excitement and grunts of disapproval, and have generally learned the ins and outs of the game through him, his brother, and stepfather. I even got to watch a bit of village level cricket over in England a few summers ago. However, it wasn’t until moving to Australia on a Read more
There is nothing I would regret more than not writing a blog! I know it is a bit of work, but it is definitely worth doing while on your working holiday visa and here are 9 reasons why 9. All Your Memories In One Spot I love to go through my blog and revel in memories. Here are all the wonderful stories and the best pictures of the best time of my life …or at least of the time since I travel. I really regret that I didn’t write a blog all my life, cause there is just Read more
Who doesn’t know about the infamous full moon party? Right. No one. Everyone who’s backpacking in Thailand was mentioning it. And as I had a private Thailand-holiday planner (my sister), she made sure I would go to the full moon party, too easy! For the first time in 2.5 years I wasn’t traveling solo, I was with my sister, her husband, 2 long term friends a workmate of my sister and a friend from Australia. Party preparations My friends from back home arrived a bit later at the Haad Rin beach where the full moon party would be. Read more
The world is a place full of experiences to be had and things to learn. But not everything we learn comes from the places we visit but rather in the way we visit them and the journey we go on ourselves. If you’ve ever left the comforts of home, you will relate to these! 5. Crying is ok Whether it is seeing a concentration camp from the Holocaust or you have, ahem, ‘something in your eye’, travelling anywhere gives you the freedom to express yourself, often more than you would in your home town. Maybe that’s because you are able Read more
