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6 People You Will See at Every Aussie Music Festival

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So you’re going to experience an Australian music festival while on you’re on a working holiday visa. Like back home there’s going to be people that will be at every Aussie gig, from Stereosonic to summadayze to rainbow serpent. Read our list of 6 People you will see at every Australian music festival,     6. The Mankini   Since the rise of Borat the mankini has never looked back and is bound to make a cameo at every music festival.     5. The Posers   Practicing their golden pose in the mirror is essential to the poser training. Read more

6 Skills Not Every “Know It All” Backpacker Will Have

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Travelling around Australia often find yourself in unusual situations and often wish your skillset was that little bit bigger. Here is 6 skills not every backpacker will have!   1) How to change the oil in a car 2) Having signature meal in the kitchen ( 2 minute noodles don’t count) 3) How to choose a good wine 4) How to change a flat tyre ( Useful when doing harvest work) 5) How to drive manual 6) How to perform first aid     Do you know any others that should be on the list? What skills have you learnt Read more

8 Things You Will Cherish While Backpacking

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Travelling and working in Australia will be some of your greatest memories. Your Adventure will bring up and downs along the way, we’ve compiled a list of 8 things that will bring a smile on your face during your journey downunder.   8 Things You Will Cherish While Backpacking Australia   1) Sleeping in hostels, a bottom bunk is key, because who really wants to stumble up to the top bunk at 3am in a dark room full of 10 other people. 2) Finding Shampoo in the shower can often make your night! 3) Not having to drink goon because Read more

3 Top Reasons Why We Travel

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Tomorrow morning I am taking the train into work and handing in my resignation. I will be wearing my ironed shirt and my shiny shoes as a weapon of courtesy, but my smile will be the one thing that is telling the truth and screaming with joy.   That alarm has been going off now on a morning for years. Sometimes the alarm is a good alarm, elephant trekking in Chang Mai for instance. Sometimes the alarm is a bad one, like catching the overnight bus through Laos and its many winding building sites. An alarm always has and always Read more

A Guide To Travelling When You Have No Money.

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A Guide To Travelling When You Have No Money.

A Guide To Traveling When You Have No Money   The main reason that people give, when it comes to the failure to broaden their own minds, is that they can’t ‘afford’ to travel, or that they can’t ever even think about travelling until they have X amount of pounds/dollars to ‘guarantee’ their safety. I’ve even met people on the working holiday in Australia who have been in the same city for their entire working holiday visa!     Guess what, You can go travelling right now, just up sticks and see the world. Grab a drink in Venice, dance with Read more

From the Streets of Melbourne

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I’m Julie from New Jersey in the USA and I’ve been living in Australia for over 8 months on a Working Holiday Visa. As a confused senior in college, I realized I was not ready to join the ranks of nine-to-fivers  and instead, purchased a one-way ticket to Australia. For the first five months of my adventure I worked at a restaurant in Cairns. During the next leg of my journey I travelled down the east coast of Australia before arriving in Melbourne to work again. Finding a job in another country is all about trying something new and getting Read more

How to Get Work on a Working Holiday

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Some tips on getting a bar job Well the clues in the title, on a working holiday it stands to reason that at some point you are going to need to work. So what kind of job suites you the most? What about a working holiday job where you can lie by a beach all day long, meet loads of like minded people and get a little tipsy on a night, whilst saving money. Sounds like a dream doesn’t it?! Well it’s the perfect job for the off the plane, fresh faced foreigner like you! It’s bar work that you Read more

You Have A Visa, What’s Next?

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First off, congratulations on reading this. It shows that you are serious about wanting to get the very best from your working holiday and enjoy every moment of this unique (and expensive) opportunity that you have paved out for yourself. In 2012/2013 over 210,000 visas have been issued by the Australian government to people just like you. Firstly, its great to remember that you are not alone! There is a fantastic community of us offering both work and travel advice to help you out along the way. My name is Joel Mitchell and at the date of writing this I Read more

5 Fun Things To Do in Melbourne

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Melbourne’s a vibrant and exciting city, with so much sport, culture and scenery there’s an endless amount of fun things to do Melbourne and we’ve narrowed down 5 must do activities when you’re in town.     5. Eureka Skydeck   The Eureka Skydeck is centrally located in Melbourne and a great way to soak up a great view of Melbourne and get a feel for the city. Located on Level 88 in the summit of the tower, the skydeck is the highest public vantage point in Melbourne, Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Up on the Skydeck you can see Read more