Jul 20th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
The Blue Mountains of New South Wales are characterized by deep gorges and tree cover that appears from a distance to be bathed in a blue haze. The Three Sisters, a formation of three rock towers, are one of the region's highlights. Today's Photo of the Day depicts Meehni, the tallest of the Three Sisters.
Today's Photo of the Day was taken by Flickr user verargulla, whose work has been ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: Blue Mountains
Jul 20th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
The Blue Mountains of New South Wales are characterized by deep gorges and tree cover that appears from a distance to be bathed in a blue haze. The Three Sisters, a formation of three rock towers, are one of the region's highlights. Today's Photo of the Day depicts Meehni, the tallest of the Three Sisters.
Today's Photo of the Day was taken by Flickr user verargulla, whose work has been ...Sydney's Chinatown means cheap eats, Australian seafood, famous noodles
Nov 11th, 2010 at 11:00AM: "NOOOOOOOO!"
That's the sound of me, arriving at Chinese Noodle Restaurant (Shop 7, 8 Quay St.), in Sydney's Chinatown/Haymarket district. Two years I'd waited, eight thousand miles I'd traveled, to feast upon my beloved #4 pork noodle combo. Instead I found the following handwritten sign:
"Dear Customers, We will be closed...for kitchen renovation. We apologize for any inconvienience" The ...Win a surf vacation to Byron Bay, Australia
Nov 5th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Have you ever wanted to visit Australia? How about learn to surf? If you said yes to either one, or both, of those questions, then we've got just the contest for you. Tourism New South Wales is sponsoring a contest in which one lucky winner, and their guest, will be whisked off to Australia for five days of fun and sun on the lovely beaches of Byron Bay. Once there, they'll learn how to surf and ...Round-the-world: Sydney's sustainable design shops
Sep 22nd, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Increasingly, small independent shops are creating new aesthetics to pair up appropriately with eco-friendly and otherwise sustainable product and wares. Sydney boasts several boutiques that are in one or another way ahead of the global curve. Following are three shops, all opened within the past year or so, that merge sustainability, upcycling, and even a sense of community with retail ...Round-the-world: Four days in Sydney
Sep 20th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
The first four days of our round-the-world trip race by in a whirl of receipts, flat whites, great meals, urban hikes, and friendly Sydneysiders.
You'll see that receipts head my list. Australia has become one expensive lucky country, make no bones about it. A late night dash to a convenience store for bottled water, a muesli bar, and biscuits sets us back AUD17 ($16). A copy of Monocle ...How to take a round-the-world trip
Sep 10th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
An open-ended round-the-world trip can be led by whimsy and happenstance and benefit accordingly from extremely loose planning. A more structured, time-limited round-the-world trip necessitates figuring out transportation in advance. With five weeks to play with, we fell into the latter camp.
I emailed AirTreks in the spring and dutifully submitted an itinerary through their global map ...A round-the-world trip: Where?
Sep 8th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Once I'd dispensed with my unrestricted fantasies of scurrying from seldom-visited corner to seldom-visited corner (see Monday's post) we got down to the essentials of figuring out where we wanted to go.
The Micronesian islands of Palau and Yap were our first priorities. Both destinations had been on our radar for years. Palau with its faintly stinging marine lake jellyfish and the ...Angry hookers protest ad costs
Jun 3rd, 2009 at 4:00PM: Prostitutes in New South Wales are mad. Escalating advertising costs in local papers have prompted these street-walkers to take to the ... um ... streets. The Scarlet Alliance thus protested outside the NSW Parliament House, fighting for anti-discrimination laws to protect their rights. In addition to advertising, they want better treatment from banks, lenders and local councils.
Sex work is ...Nimbin: Australia's Answer to Woodstock
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 2:30PM:
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Sydney, Australia visiting my good friend Sarah. Rather than hang around in Sydney, we elected to road trip up to Byron Bay. Byron is a great little beach town in the northern portion of New South Wales and we had a great trip. But that's a post for another day. Because, while we were in Byron Bay, we took a side trip to Nimbin. Everyone in Sydney had told us ...
