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trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Top Ten destinations for kids when visiting Eastern Australia

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:45:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author texas-swede - I, my wife and our kids spent three weeks in Eastern Australia in August of 2005. We visited Sydney and the Blue Mountains for a few days and the rest of the time we spent in Queensland. Queensland is probably Australia's prime destination for...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: A better place for me and for you

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:25:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author candiceliong - I visited Australia last year and it is really a fantastic trip in my life! I went to Perth, Sydney and Melbourne for 6 days 5 nights. We went to many many fruits and animal farms in Perth. My son and daughter got the chance to milk the cow and they like...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: An Australian Experience

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:35:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author laxhunter - Australia has tonnes of things to, I just never got to do it all. I was in Sydney and Tasmania in late February till early March 2006. Sydney The things to do: 1. Visit the market in Paddington and the Rocks, the things sold there are very...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia, a land of fun, sun, and adventure!

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:33:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author byrnie - Australia is a wonderful Country. It has sweeping sunburnt plains, pristine beaches, lush rainforests, and the advantage of great lifestyle technology. Australia is also a place for fun, with the greatest (bar America’s) Theme parks. I have two main...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Some places that have got “IT”

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:12:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Ever been somewhere that has got IT. That weird feeling that doesn't frighten but has the hairs only half standing on the back of your neck. A warmth pervades your body as you approach, no matter what the weather.

The air is just not the...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australian Rules Football - almost a religion?

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:33:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - If in the unlikely event you find this epistle not up to my usual standard, it is all the fault of fellow epinionator Nick Peters, known commonly as NFP.

Now Nick is an American but it's not his fault - it was just an accident of...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australian ABORIGINALS' - you think white man so smart???

Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:31:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Are words important? Not really. What about labels? You bet your sweet bippy they are!

Why is it that white Caucasian people refer to themselves as of a certain nationality unyet a non white person is labelled as being of a Tribe? Well it all...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: CAMELS CAN SMELL TOO

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:05:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - I am not particularly fond of anything that needs four legs to stand up. Oh, except maybe a mouse because they feed cats, which in turn feed dogs making an easier target. Because of the four-leg bit, I love Kangaroos and some humans are okay too.
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trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: A VERY different LIFE

Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:51:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - There is just no doubt about old paleface, white chops, the white man. For tens of thousand of years the Aboriginals had kept Australia pristine. They understood the land. They new fire was essential to the propagation of many Australian trees - and they...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - FAIR DINKUM - I would SHOOT you

Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:02:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Just say you and I were the very first people to walk on to Australia. And just say we knew how big it was.

Now if you said to me in two hundred years this overgrown lump of dirt would have twenty million people living at one of the highest...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - even the INSANE are welcome

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:48:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Now this is really a classified conversation, but since I trust you I will tell you what happened. This morning I got a call from the Prime Minister - nothing unusual about that. "Yes John, ow ya going, mate?.....yes..yes..of course they do...hey, I just...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: If you ever get the chance to go, DO IT!

Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:46:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author amandaw99 - How I got to go

I think that I am really lucky. I got to go to Australia this past summer for three weeks. Not bad, for a 21 year old who paid for it all myself. And, I would do it again in a heart beat. I was lucky in that one of my...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Up on "Down Under"

Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:30:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mht - When my sister and I first landed in Sydney, we were greeted by a friendly Aussie. She guided us to her car and said, "Wiy don' yu' jus' put yur luggige in the boot..."

"The boot???" we wondered, "what kind of boot would fit our luggage for...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Kick back and relax!

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:43:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jmdeyar10 - During my three week stay in Australia I had the chance to experience many new cultural aspects in such a short period of time. I went with a community service organization from my college. We spent our time not only traveling and site seeing, but...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: The country of sunshine

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:14:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author christabelle - Recently, my boyfriend and I took a trip around Australia. The country i must say (not being biased because i live here) is a magnificent splendor. The country offers so many lifestyles suited for almost any tourist. Such as A class shopping in...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: WA, the state less travelled

Mon, 2 Jul 2001 01:45:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author james_a - I got to WA in the latter half of my trip around Oz and New Zealand. I'd already done the crazy East coast, explored metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne, and done all the touristy bits up the middle including Uluru, (Ayer's rock) and the Kakadu National...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: An Ode to Rock

Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:33:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author copernicus - **note** for some reason I cannot submit another review under 'Victoria' so until I figure out how, I'll stick it under this header **end note**

Well, as I sit here contemplating my Computational Methods notes, the mood has come upon me...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: This is the best place in the world!!

Fri, 25 May 2001 00:33:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattels - Okay, well, this may just have to be a highly biased opinion, considering that I actually live in Australia, and do consider myself the luckiest person in the world for it!! Ah, beautiful Australia, where can I start!!

Firstlt the natural...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia for the traveller

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:59:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author apoeze - Background

Right off the bat I’ll add my little caveat. Look carefully at my place of residence. Yes, I’m already here in Australia and so my review may be somewhat affected by bias. On the other hand I know this country very well. Better...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Love bite Bredl - The Barefoot Bushman

Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:20:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - One of Australia's most popular television shows is "The Barefoot Bushman".

Barefooted, Rob Bredl has been catching animals for 27 years. I know Rob reasonably well, and he is one mad galah. With his father, he started Australia's first...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Impressions From 'Down Under'!

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:35:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author whalewatcher - Australia, that far away continent, so many of us dream about it and hope to get there some day. But what do we really know about it? Putting it into simple terms, most of us probably think of it as follows:

A - for Adventure;

U - for...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - LAUGHING and REGURGITATING

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:15:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Are you aware that from here i.e. both Adelaide and Melbourne, you can fly over Antarctica?

You can rent a light aircraft and just head south until it gets bloody cold and when you see all this white stuff below, you know you are getting close...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - A Head full of BLOOD

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 05:30:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - The real differences between Australia and the USA

Well I'll be a bull ant in spring. Why a bull ant? They have no morals!

Now, today marks the 23rd. week of sweat and toil in this hallowed place, and all of it done...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - you GALAHS going to stay there and SHIVER?

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:46:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - a country such as I firmly believe has no parallel on earth's surface. --The famous Australian explorer Charles Sturt, 1844

Okay, so whats your excuse this time. We have allowed the Pacific Pesos....er...Australian Dollar to fall...

trvl-Dest-South Pacific-Australia: Australia - Cattle Stations and WET DREAMS

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:01:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SMITHSWOODSIDE - Will the Koala survive this one - we shall see. PLEASE NOTE - this review was planned to be published in January, but has been moved forward as a service to you, dear reader

When I was a little Aussi, about seven years old, my...