Author: Oliver
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Aloha Hawaii!!
Read more: Aloha Hawaii!!Stepping off of the plane in Honolulu, we were greeted by sunny, cloudless skies, a light breeze and beautiful, warm temperatures around 30C! Hawaii was a welcome change to the harsh Australian winter with temperatures dipping to 15C! J Do you know what Aloha means? Here comes the “My Big Fat Greet Wedding” explanation of the…
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Australian Robin Hood?
Read more: Australian Robin Hood?How do you become a folk hero by robbing banks? Let’s check out the interesting story of notorious Ned Kelly. During the mid-1800’s Australia had its own version of the “Wild West”, particularly during the time of the gold rush. While the majority of people were either trying to scrape out a living as farmers in…
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GO HAWKS!
Read more: GO HAWKS!Imagine a game with only one rule…there are no rules! That was my perception of Aussie Rules Football – also known as “footie” – until we went to see a game with our cousin Michael while in Melbourne! The league is called the Australian Football League or AFL and its board of governors administers the single rule…
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Marvelous Melbourne!
Read more: Marvelous Melbourne!After our whirlwind tour in Sydney, we hopped on a quick flight to Melbourne to check out what would prove to be a marvelous city. I really enjoyed Melbourne a lot. It’s large, but not huge with a population of about 4.8 million. This city feels like Toronto – cosmopolitan, with a very cool vibe. There’s a…
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Sensational Sydney!
Read more: Sensational Sydney!I think we’ve become used to all the short flights we’ve been taking over the past few months, because our 11 hours of flights from Hong Kong to Sydney (via Singapore) really seemed unusually long! So, after arriving in Sydney and getting into the timezone, we were ready to explore. We started out with an…