New Years Eve - Website

I’m so happy there’s a website just for planning your New Years Eve celebrations. We want to be in Sydney for that night. It’s the best place to be in my oppinion for some incredible fireworks and an amazing atmosphere of over a million people gathered together!

What I’ve heard from travel forums is that you need to book your accomodation over half a year in advance! There’s a lot of tourists and people who have the same plan so it’s best to book something really early so you don’t miss out! Once we find a hotel we may book in July to make sure that’s where we’ll be for sure on New Years Eve!

Check out that website for other great places to celebrate New Years Eve. Cities across Australia hold their own celebrations every year!

I can’t wait to see the Harbour Bridge explode with fireworks and experience one of the biggest celebrations in the world and then hit the beach

Air New Zealand - Website

So we’re thinking of taking a little side trip to New Zealand while in Australia. If you’ve come all that way why would you not go a little further a explore another country?! So I did a little research and I found an airline that flies from any major city to New Zealand. It’s probably the most known airline for New Zealand anyways. The fares are really good and I think for sure we’ll be able to afford it!

I don’t know too much about New Zealand at the moment. I’ve watched some travel shows about Milfred Sound and how there are no snakes. Don’t really know what I would check out but luckily I have a cousin who recently moved there so he might be able to recommend some places to visit. Until then I know I can get a good deal on traveling there so that’s a start.

Ever since I stumbled across this show on YouTube 3 months ago I have been hooked ever since! I can’t go a day without missing an episode. This is a great show to get used to hearing the Aussie accents and getting familiar with sayings that Australians say. Life in Summer Bay isn’t too different compared to where I am now except for the ocean right outside the door!

Check out the latest episode on YouTube. Type “Home and Away 4752″ and you’ll get today’s episode! There are some nice people out there that upload the show everyday for us North Americans who can’t watch the episodes on the official website. We’re not in their region so it’s not available. I can’t wait to actually watch an episode on a real TV while in Austrlia!

My favorite characters are Roman, Angelo, Nicole, Aden and Jeff. They have been quite popular the last few weeks.

Official Home and Away Website

Check it out and hopefully you don’t get addicted like me!

2Day FM Website - Listen Live!

If you’re planning on staying in Sydney for a while this would be one of the popular radio stations to listen to. They’re morning hosts appear to be quite popular over there. If you listen at 3pm in Canada you can catch them live. Also the traffic reports are quite funny to hear as well. The reporter uses a lot of slang and most of the time you have no clue what’s going on in traffic!

If Sydney is where you’re bound than I suggest having a listen to this station for fun. It’s really neat to hear all the accents and the use of some words you wouldn’t think of hearing on the radio. I’d say it’s a good taste of what you’re getting yourself into.

Backpack Victoria is really worth a visit! I’m planning on staying in Melbourne for a few months and this site helps with accommodation, jobs, places to eat and everything that’s going on! It’s a super helpful website and very current with everything you need right on the home page.

Everything you need to know about getting around, customs and the best places to check out are on this site. Go ahead and bookmark it! It could come in handy on your travels!

I stumbled across Lost Outback Podcasts a few days ago and have yet to listen to most of them but they answer a lot of questions about Australia that you would only find out by talking to the locals. I can’t wait to hear more of them. It seems they haven’t updated in over a year but still this is useful information if you want to know some more tid bits of info on the great land of OZ. Enjoy!

Travellers at Work- Job Search

I came across this job website today and it looks promising. It’s designed for travellers looking for work. All the job postings are for casual/term positions so you don’t waste time looking through all the full time ads. While searching through it for ten minutes I found a handful of jobs that I would be willing to apply for if I was heading out in a month like I will be this time next year. It’s worth a look incase you need a job ASAP!

During my future travels in Australia next year I plan on taking the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs. Better to see the outback on the ground than barely from the air. It will be a long ride but I think it will be more of an adventure than just simply taking a plane to Alice Springs.

The fares are reasonable if you go Red Kangaroo service and you can also get a cabin for sleeping since it’s a two day journey.

Visit The Ghan website.

A little bit about The Ghan:

The Ghan is a passenger train operating between Adelaide, Alice Springs, and Darwin on the Adelaide-Darwin railway in Australia. Operated by Great Southern Railway and with locomotives provided by Pacific National, the journey takes 48 hours to travel the 2,979 kilometres (1850 miles). The service’s name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname The Afghan Express, which comes from the Afghan camel trains that trekked the same route before the advent of the railway.

Can’t wait to ride it!

Brisbane is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and most populous city of Queensland. It is situated on the Brisbane River on low-lying Floodplain between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range in south-eastern Queensland.

The local indigenous people knew the area as Mian-jin, meaning ‘place shaped as a spike’. The city is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 – 1825. The settlement grew from a penal colony established at his direction in 1824 at Redcliffe, 28 kilometres (17.4 mi) to the north. The colony moved to the current location of the Brisbane CBD in 1825, and free settlers were permitted from 1842. It was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony in 1859.

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