Category — Travel Tips

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Student flights are extremely simple to achieve. Prior to making a reservation, you showcase your student ID and you’re done. Of course, there are conditions. You must be an active student and have your little black book so to speak, updated. Let us take care of your vacation. These days, teenagers are not that pretentious when it comes to their summer destination because all they have in mind is to party and have fun. Whether they want to go to the seaside or towards the mountains, they usually opt for the cheapest places, not the most beautiful ones.

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What exactly is a gourmet traveller? For starters, if you like to explore the world, see beautiful places and taste delicious food, then you’re hooked. Some people want to see the world only for its food. And because the type of foods can be extremely varied, we can help you decide where to go and what to try out. Starting from China and its seafood madness, to the Mediterranean and the healthiest salads, we will make sure to provide the best destinations and the most luscious cuisine types.

While some countries like India want to stay traditional, others like Australia are opened to an array of choices. If you are a gourmet traveller and you want to find amazing destinations with incredible food, we are your best choice. Starting from the delicious pasta to the famous pizza, you name the food and we will recommend the best location with the greatest recipes. In addition to the food, we also provide the best national and international restaurants. Starting from 5 star bistros to cheap and delicious eateries, all you need is information.

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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010

Hi there,

Since my last email, we went to Rustenburg for our match against Ghana. As soon as we heard we had an Italian ref, we knew we were going to get screwed. Yet again, the Italians screwed our world cup hopes by cheating Oh well, at least we got to sleep past 7am for the first time (only time on our whole trip).

The next morning we left before sunlight (as usual) to drive up to Kruger National Park. Unbelievably, elephant was the first animal we saw once we entered the park within a minute or two. The grass is so high at the moment so it’s not that easy to see the animals, but we did see warthog, heaps of impalas, zebras, buffalo, kudus, and many other antelopes on the first day. Surprisingly, we saw 11 white rhinos on the first day alone. This is such a hard find find usually, but I think Chris is a Rhino magnet. Saw 3 lots of pairs, 1 solo, and on a night drive, came across 4 at a watering hole. Also saw 2 lionesses on the side of the road on the night drive too. We stayed in a camp called Bergendal that night. Known for leopards in the area, but no luck.

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010

Hi there,

Here I am in freezing cold Joburg in South Africa for the World Cup. We arrived on the 10th and visited family in Joburg that day. It was 6 degrees.

The next day we headed down to Durban. The weather was so much better there. Mid 20′s. As it’s on the beach, the atmosphere was fantastic. Everyone is in party mode, all dressed in their countries colours and singing and just in great moods. It is very safe except for our ears which are constantly filled with the bee swarm sound of the vuvuzelas. Now I hardly hear them as I have become used to them. Our time in Durban was spent strolling the beach front with the festivals, dancers, sand art, music, bars, and free activities such as zorbing, flying foxes, etc. We watched every game for the first 2 days of the Cup either in bars filled with South African fanatics (for the 1st game), or at the FIFA fan fest site on the beach. Chris & I met up with Phil and we all did a mass Aussie walk en masse (over 1000 green and gold clad supporters, wearing as much Aussie paraphernalia as we could – flags, huge inflatable boxing kangaroos on shoulders, wigs, etc. One guy was dressed as an emu. Others had koalas on their heads. It was a sight to behold. A major street was closed off to allow for the 1000+ supporters to walk to the stadium for Aussie’s first match against Germany. As you are probably all aware, our night of fun ended pretty quickly with a poor result, and then getting out of the stadium and back to where we were staying took forever. We only got home closer to 1am, then had to hit the road again at 5am the next morning so we could drive back to Joburg (6-7 hours) to make it to our Denmark v Netherlands at Soccer City in Joburg.

The stadium in Durban was fantastic, but Soccer City was mind blowing. So enormous and fantastic views from everywhere. Most of the stadium was full of Orange Dutch fans. Very good game. Joburg temperatures are incredibly cold. It is like ice all day every day.

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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009

Hi from grey, cold Germany.

How are you all? I apologise in advance if my typing is a bit off, as a German keyboard is rather different to an English one, with keys in different spots and many extra letters, so I can’t just type the way I’m used to and have to constantly check what has come up.

Anyhow, since last email, we took a day trip up to Sigulda in Latvia. It was a lovely little city, and looked stunning with snow everywhere and iced over ponds/lakes. There was a nice castle that we got to via a cable car over a forest. Unfortunately it wasn’t a weekend, so the bobsleighing track was not in operation for tourists – the main reason we went there They did let us in though and we got to go to view the track from the very top. It was soo awesome. They had the luge and bobsled iced up tracks ready for racing, right next to each other and it was so tempting to just go down on our butts. It goes for 1.2km and in a professionally manned bobsleigh, you get down in under 1 minute at speeds of over 100km/hour. One day we will be back for this. This track was used in a winter Olympics once back when Latvia was still under Russian rule.

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009

Hi all,

Sitting in my hostel in Riga, Latvia and it is below zero degrees outside. Everywhere we have been is covered in snow and it is very beautiful.

Chris, my mum and I flew into London on Friday morning and hired a car to drive up to Birmingham for my cousin’s wedding that night. The drive up was interesting, as only a few lanes on the motorways were open at all, and there was so much snow falling and on the roads and pretty slippery. Anyhow, we got up to Birmingham in good time and had a fantastic time at the wedding.

We spent the next day in the Cotswolds, and then spent the night in London with family (unfortunately too briefly), before having to get up at 3am to get to our next flight to Tallinn in Estonia. Again it was freezing cold and covered in snow and pretty icy to walk on the cobblestoned streets that make up the gorgeous old town. It was a really beautiful medieval walled city.

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008

Hi again,

Since my last email, I continued my journey in Africa until now, where I am killing time in Singapore airport in transit on my way home. Arrive into Sydney at 8pm tonight, then have to rush off for a 10pm indoor soccer game. So excited to get back to it, as I haven’t played any sport since I tore the ligaments in my ankle 9 weeks ago. Am rough and ready for it now though and won’t be playing barefoot again, so my toes should be right. Have to go back to work tomorrow, so no rest for me as usual. I am not sure how my sleep will go actually, as I got less than 1 hour sleep on the flight from Joburg to Singapore last night (was in the front row with a baby playing next to me most of the night). My body clock is totally out too, as the whole time I was on tour, I was having to get up between 4.30 and 6am everyday (6am was a sleep in) and going to bed after midnight most nights too.

Went out on a dolphin/seal cruise out of Walvis Bay in Namibia the day after my quadbiking. That was very cool as the dolphins were jumping out of the water in front of our boat for most of the way, and some seals even jumped up on board the boat, as they have been habituated to know that the will get fed fish when they do. I was sitting on a seat that one seal got on, and the captain put a fish up above my head to coax him to jump up on my back. It was so funny and he was so adorable, and we made out a bit. Well not really, but I did give him a kiss and we did have a bit of a cuddle together for a bit. I wanted to take him home. Some of the others that got on board would definitely not have been getting on my back, as they would have squashed me, since they were enormous. They also served a really nice lunch on board and kept filling our glasses with complimentary sherry, so by the time the 2 hour journey was over, I was a bit drunk and spent the next 3 hours that afternoon sleeping it off.

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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008

Hi all,

Have been in Africa for the last 2 weeks and only have about 9 days till I get home again. Having a great time, albeit having someone I know to share it with. On an Overland truck with 27 other people. There are 14 guys and 14 girls aged between 24 and about 65,but average age is only about 28. I am 7th oldest. Nationalities are Aussies, Kiwis, Poms, Yanks, Irish, Zimbabweans and Dutch. Most are pretty cool, but there are some not so nice people, especially the girl I was originally assigned to as my tent buddy. She is a miserable, whinging, stuck-up cow, and we only lasted in the same tent for a week before we couldn’t stand each other anymore and found out there was a spare tent, so now we both get to have a tent to ourselves – YAY!!  Unfortunately I still have to sit next to her on the truck everyday, but we don’t talk at all, so no more fighting

I have been getting a lot of soccer practice in with some of the boys, but have come away with my usual bout of injuries in the process. Split both my big toenails down the middle and half off while playing barefoot ‘Keep it up’, and got punched in the face by an old guy who doesn’t know how to header, so he punched at the ball when I went to header it one day when we were playing headers in the pool, only my head got to the ball first, and his fist got to my nose and lip, so I came away with a bleeding nose and fat, bleeding lip.

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008

Hi there,

Since last email, Sarah and I left the frozen Boston to the warmth of Miami Beach. Met up with Nestor (a friend we made on Contiki tour in 06) and he took us to a goth nightclub, which was kind of interesting. The next day we started what I had been longing for for so long and the sole purpose of this trip – The Motley Cruise. Bearing in mind that Skid Row and Motley Crue are my 2 favourite bands of all time and having them both on the same trip was mind blowing for me. The whole cruise was pretty much all Yanks who were all blown away that we had made the epic journey from Australia especially for this cruise. We did meet 3 other Aussies on board, and heard there were a few Canadians, South Americans, Norwegians, Scots, Japanese and Italians on there too, but basically it was just full of Yanks who gave 2 little Aussie Girls plenty of attention and questions.

It ended up being the most surreal 5 days of my life. Before we even left port in Miami, I was sitting 2 tables away from Vince Neil (Motley Crue’s lead singer) for lunch so went up to chat to him and get a photo with him. Couldn’t stop jumping around with excitement for hours after that. The first night we then had the Slaughter and Ratt concerts, which were both absolutely awesome to see some of my favourite 80′s/90′s big hair metal bands in such a small venue. While waiting in line to get into the theatre, Scotty Hill and Dave ‘Snake’ Sabo both of Skid Row walked past, so I stopped them to have a chat and photo with them.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008

Hi,

Well I’m sitting here trying to keep my eyes open at 4pm on Monday 21st January Boston time (8am on Tuesday morning Sydney time), as I have had so little and messed up sleep since Saturday night Sydney time. After leaving Sydney at about 1pm Sydney time on Saturday, flying just under 10 hours to Taipei, we then spent just over 4 hours in the airport to get on our flight at about 3am Sydney time and passed out very quickly for our almost 11 hour flight. Only managed to get about 6 hours sleep, and could’ve had longer, but knew we were then on about 3pm San Francisco time, so didn’t want to keep sleeping and then not be able to sleep that night.

Finally after 30 hours from leaving Chris’s house on Saturday morning Sydney time, and catching the train then taxi to our friend Nethers house in San Francisco on Saturday night (San Fran time), we were ready to take on America. Luckily Sarah and I got an upgrade to business class on the Sydney to Taipei leg which was awesome, however we had to sit in cattle class like sardines on the longer leg so that was tough, but I guess where we belong. It was great to catch up with our Contiki friend Nethers and all her friends. Did such an American thing and went and partied at an Irish Pub and ate pizza. Ended up getting to bed at 3am San Fran time, then up at 9am and spent the whole of Sunday showing Sarah around since I’ve been there so much before. Had another very American experience for dinner on Sunday night of Indian, and then got the train to the airport to catch our 2 hour delayed overnight 5 hour flight to Boston last night. Hardly got any sleep on that flight, so now after about 70 hours since leaving Sydney, I have probably only had about 12 hours sleep, so I’m really struggling. Going to have a quiet one tonight though, so hopefully I will be all back to normal tomorrow and ready for a lot of partying over the next week when we hit Miami and the Motley Cruise.

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