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As a part of my five month trip, I've spent little over four weeks in Australia.

35 Days in New Zealand and Australia

I have families living in Oz so I used them as a reason to go exploring down under

My trip with Adi and Uols around the world. We booked our flights and left without a plan what to do and where to go. See also: http://www.ballofdirt.com/journeys/11721.html

We arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon and we were planning to stay with my cousin's best friend, Claire, who had recently moved over there. We thought it would be quite easy to find her house from the airport but unfortunately an unhelpful transport information worker sent us on a bit of a wild goose chase. We were both quite happy when we finally got there and it was really nice to see a familiar face after so long. We decided to go out for a meal and a few drinks as we were al...

Well finally i made it back after 6 years away and what a trip it was! This time it was less backpacking tho as i was back 2 visit my boyfriend but we still made it around 2 Melbourne, Adelaide, Surfers Paradise, Sydney and of course around Gippsland all tho its not very known by backpackers more people should def visit cos got some amazing sights :-)

Spent a few weeks in Melbourne and Sydney in 2004.

The train that would eventually take us to Melbourne was very late coming in to the station and we were wondering if it would ever arrive at all. It did, about 20 minutes late. We had earlier found a bottle shop and purchased a six-pack of the local VB, Victoria Bitter ale to bring on the train with us. It wasn’t easy finding a bottle shop, and there is really nowhere else you can purchase beer other than a pub. The overnight train was delightful. It was a very modern, clean train. It was l...

As december and Christmas approached we were still working hard throughout the week and every other weekend. the weather was beginning to get better, summer was definately on its way. After a quiet xmas and new years day, it was time to see in the new year at a beach party in an area of melbourne strangely enough called Brighton...The locals call raves 'doofs' due to the nature of most of the music played (it goes ...doof doof doof doof, doof doof !) and this one was put on for the hardcore p...

Viatge que comença per Buenos Aires i no se sap per on acaba...