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Melbourne’s Top 5 locations for great photography

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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

5 Reasons I Loved the Cricket

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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

9 Reason Why I Write a Blog

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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

The Infamous Full Moon Party

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  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

5 Lessons You Learn While Overseas

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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

A Whack at the WACA

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It was a hot afternoon following a late night of drinks in the garden with friends. I was expecting the day to be lazy and uneventful, filled with reading, writing, snacking, and napping, all in my pajamas. Only moments after rubbing my freshly opened eyes, my boyfriend announced that we’d be going to watch the cricket. To be honest, the thought of sitting outside in the blistering heat to watch a sport that took, in my opinion, far too many hours to complete seemed dreadfully daunting. However, being the sports and competition lover that I am, I agreed to pull Read more

5 Tips to Dominate St Patricks Day

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St Patricks Day is an institution with millions of people, backpackers and working holiday makers worldwide using the day to sink some pints and get involved in banter. If you’re not Irish he’s 5 things to take note of once the craic begins.   5. Ensure it’s a good pint Make sure you the head is white on your pint. Nothing worse than a syrupy brown coloured pint. If your’s is no good move on to the next bar.   4. Don’t Think You Can Pull Off An Ascent Just because you can put on an Irish accent doesn’t mean Read more

And They Say Irish are Crazy… They’ve Legalised Drugs

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Do you know any Irish people back home or on a working holiday visa? Aren’t they all the craic and great banter. Well they’ve taken it to a new “big high” in the motherland, they’ve temporally legalised class A drugs in ireland. An emergency session of parliament has been called to pass legislation to recriminalise the drugs which is to be held today or tomorrow in Ireland. Article 15 of the Irish constitution stipulates that the Oireachtas ( Irish parliament) has the sole privilege of creating new laws. This is completely true and not some St Patricks day bar story! Read more

4 Must Do Activities at Phillip Island

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Located less than 2 hours south of Melbourne, Phillip Island is a perfect destination to relax for a couple of days. Phillip Island has everything for the backpacker looking for things to do or for the working holiday makers quick get away! Beautiful beaches, nature walks, local fauna and sightseeing, helicopter flights. Here’s a list for you of some of the best things to do on Phillip Island for an amazing weekend!     4. Soak up the nature Like the rest of Australia, Phillip Island has many National Parks and offers a lot of different beautiful nature walks. There’s various Read more