Location Archives: Melbourne

They said it would happen…

So instead of spending the night of August 7th in our campervan, part way between Alice Springs and Uluru, we spent the night in a surprisingly large and well appointed airport hotel room in Melbourne. Everyone from this side of the world whom we’ve told about having five Tiger Airlines flights on our itinerary, has immediately squinted at us with a look of mixed concern and bemusement. Tiger, it seems, is known for not being the most reliable airline. I believe it was my aunt Janet who suggested that one of the planes might simply not be there when we — Read the Rest…

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Planes, trains and automobiles!

I thought it would be fun to keep a record of all the different modes of transportation we’ve used to get us around the world. Unfortunately, hot air balloon is not going to be one of them, I don’t think. But here’s the ones that we have used…I’ll update this as we go… Honda Civic from our house to Mississauga, and then the airport Air Canada Embraer 175 from Toronto to Newark Minivan shuttle from Newark airport to Madison Hotel NJ Transit commuter train from Madison Hotel (Convent station) to Madison station Mini Cooper from Dad’s place back and forth — Read the Rest…

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G’day mate!

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G’day mate! We’re in a Australia it’s really awesome! So far we have been to Sydney, Cairns and now Melbourne. what most people would say is the highlight is the “Great Barrier Reef”! But I like being with my cousins, Cleo, Zara, Ava, Tristan, Tessa and Josie. This is Cleo I don’t have pictures of Zara or Ava but this is Tristan This is Tessa This is Josie Sadly I don’t have picture of Luke, Alexis or Laif (sp?) The first full day in Sydney we had a BBQ with Tessa, Luke, Janet, Josie, Laif, Cleo, Alexis, Zara and Ava — Read the Rest…

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30 minutes of dinos

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Today we went to the Museum well just the gift shop we are actually going on Tuesday and I made a funny edit of one of the dinosaur toys We also went to another museum, a nice cafe and glow in the dark mini golf.

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More photos from Down Under by C&J

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