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Don’t Pay Your Rent

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How good is being told by the city of Sydney to not pay your rent! Well this is what has happened to residents of a building in Sydney, which included working holiday makers. Told by the government of new south wales not too pay their rent. So money from their working holiday job might just last a little bit longer! The key issue for the residents will be getting their bond back.     Have you ever been in a situation like this?!

Tragedy : Germanwings Flight 4U9525 Fatal Crash

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Tragedy has struck German Wings Flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The A320 was on its 2nd flight of the day, having earlier left Dusseldorf for Barcelona. The Flight 4U9595 crashed in the French Alps The Black box has been found Weather in set to deteriorate which will hinder search efforts The captain had more than 10 years of experience and had clocked up more than 6,000 flight hours on the Airbus model. There is uncertainty over weather a distress call was made A school party was on board Search efforts have been suspended overnight due to the difficulty of Read more

5 Reasons I Loved the Cricket

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As an American, cricket is fairly hard to come by- unless you’re talking about the insect, of course. While traveling in Europe, I met my boyfriend, an Englishman with a love of the game. Over the past three years, I’ve watched statistics float across the TV screen, heard both exclamations of excitement and grunts of disapproval, and have generally learned the ins and outs of the game through him, his brother, and stepfather. I even got to watch a bit of village level cricket over in England a few summers ago. However, it wasn’t until moving to Australia on a Read more

5 Lessons You Learn While Overseas

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The world is a place full of experiences to be had and things to learn. But not everything we learn comes from the places we visit but rather in the way we visit them and the journey we go on ourselves. If you’ve ever left the comforts of home, you will relate to these! 5. Crying is ok Whether it is seeing a concentration camp from the Holocaust or you have, ahem, ‘something in your eye’, travelling anywhere gives you the freedom to express yourself, often more than you would in your home town. Maybe that’s because you are able Read more

A Whack at the WACA

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It was a hot afternoon following a late night of drinks in the garden with friends. I was expecting the day to be lazy and uneventful, filled with reading, writing, snacking, and napping, all in my pajamas. Only moments after rubbing my freshly opened eyes, my boyfriend announced that we’d be going to watch the cricket. To be honest, the thought of sitting outside in the blistering heat to watch a sport that took, in my opinion, far too many hours to complete seemed dreadfully daunting. However, being the sports and competition lover that I am, I agreed to pull Read more

And They Say Irish are Crazy… They’ve Legalised Drugs

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Do you know any Irish people back home or on a working holiday visa? Aren’t they all the craic and great banter. Well they’ve taken it to a new “big high” in the motherland, they’ve temporally legalised class A drugs in ireland. An emergency session of parliament has been called to pass legislation to recriminalise the drugs which is to be held today or tomorrow in Ireland. Article 15 of the Irish constitution stipulates that the Oireachtas ( Irish parliament) has the sole privilege of creating new laws. This is completely true and not some St Patricks day bar story! Read more

4 Must Do Activities at Phillip Island

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Located less than 2 hours south of Melbourne, Phillip Island is a perfect destination to relax for a couple of days. Phillip Island has everything for the backpacker looking for things to do or for the working holiday makers quick get away! Beautiful beaches, nature walks, local fauna and sightseeing, helicopter flights. Here’s a list for you of some of the best things to do on Phillip Island for an amazing weekend!     4. Soak up the nature Like the rest of Australia, Phillip Island has many National Parks and offers a lot of different beautiful nature walks. There’s various Read more

My First Aussie Sunburn

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I always had a vague idea of what Australia would be like when I was growing up. Beyond the typical images of kangaroos bouncing around and boomerangs zinging past, I pictured the country as sitting in the center of a never-ending rain of sun rays. After being granted my first Working Holiday Visa in January, I couldn’t wait to book my flight and come to the land of sunshine and warmth. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I picked a great city enjoying the sunshine while simultaneously being cooled down by the energetic winds- I didn’t know that Read more

Why I Decided to Move to Australia

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As an Englishman, Australia is awfully far away from home. Fourteen thousand, four hundred and twenty kilometres from the village in which I grew up, to Perth, where I live now. In truth though, I haven’t lived in England for many years – nearly five – since leaving university. After graduating with a degree in mathematics, I didn’t feel like I was ready to enter the corporate world of finance. Instead, I wanted to teach English, volunteer somewhere I had never been, and work a ski season so that I could improve my board skills. As chance would have it, I Read more

Top 5 Places To Chill Out in Asia

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. Khuang Si Fall, Luang Prabang, Laos

Believe it or not, Asia isn’t all bright lights, busy streets and death-trap traffic. Yes, restless cities like Bangkok and Beijing are renowned for their heady mix of chaos and culture, but there’s also plenty of places to visit when you need to take a well-earned break from the madness. Don’t get me wrong, we backpackers love the madness, but let’s face it, the constant sea of people and endless partying can be pretty exhausting after a while. So, when you need to recharge your batteries and get some down time, here’s where to make your escape and chill out Read more