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The Best and Worst of Australian Hostels

By on February 17, 2012 in Adelaide, Agnes Water, Airlie Beach, Alice Springs, Australia, backpacking, best, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Cairns, Canberra, Cape Tribulation, Coffs Harbour, hostels, Magnetic Island, Melbourne, Mission Beach, Newcastle, Noosa, overrated, Port Macquarie, Rainbow Beach, Surfers Paradise, Townsville

Tweet I stayed in more hostels in Australia than I ever care to count. Some were great, some were disgusting and some weren’t really memorable. In this post I will break them all down with you, in complete honesty, for every hostel I stayed at, in every city I visited. There are a number of large [...]

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Photo Essay: Where I Slept in Oz

By on January 5, 2012 in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Australia, backpacking, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Coober Pedy, hostels, Newcastle, Noosa, photo friday, Port Macquarie, Surfers Paradise, Sydney, Whitsundays

Tweet In my almost year in Australia, I slept a lot of places. Dozens of hostels, a few floors, friends’ apartments, two boats, tents, swags and countless cities. It all started in Sydney at Tommy’s house in Petersham, where he and his dad graciously let me sleep until I found my own pad. I got [...]

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Canberra: It’s Not Easy Being the ACT

By on February 15, 2011 in Australia, Canberra, friends, road trip

TweetIf Sydney’s the city you want to hook up with and Melbourne is the city you want to date, then you could say Canberra is that drunken one night stand that you’d like to forget. Or so I came to believe when I told Sydneysiders that it was the next stop on my road trip. [...]

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