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St Kilda Festival 2015

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St Kilda Festival Melbourne

The annual St Kilda festival comes to a massive climax today with the inaugural street festival taking over St Kilda for the entire day. If you haven’t been this is a must do on the Melbourne working holiday bucket list. If your familiar with the layout of the St Kilda Festival you will know it blocks of around 3-4km of road with around 400,000 people expected. It’s just one of those days! This is the 35th annual running of the St Kilda Festival and there’s no shortage of Australian music and talent on show. With the many live sites, popup Read more

Straya

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With Australia Day just around the corner youtuber coachbombaymusic has put together the ” unofficial” Australian National Anthem. It’s a great 2 minute crash course on Aussie culture and some awesome lyrics!   Sung to the beat of Outkast’s ” Hey Ya”, Straya has some great lyrics for you to listen too as you look for a backpacker job or 2nd year visa job.   “You think you’ve got it Oh you think you’ve got it But have you got a rock where there is nothing at all”   Do you know where this is?   “Alright now fellas Yeah! Read more

9 Signs You’re Slowly Becoming An Aussie

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Living/Travelling on a working holiday in Australia? Do you think you’ll return home the same person? Well here’s some certain signs that you’re becoming an Aussie!     1) You now call flip flops, thongs   2) You have a thong tan line on your feet all your round.   3) You can compare all the different drops of goon.     4) You responding “yeah yeah nah nah” to a simple question has become standard.   5) You have turned a garden hose into a bong rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the plants.   Read more

8 Lies Solo Travellers Tell Themselves

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Travelling alone can mean lots of different things, one in particular is telling yourself things while you “ find yourself” on the road. Here are 8 lies solo travellers tell themselves and we’re there’s plenty more,   1) I will not fall in love   Meeting the girl or guy of your dreams can often change your travel plans, changing your flight or missing that bus.   2) I will not get absolutely blind and pass out in a random place   Meeting new people while travelling can and will most likely lead to getting on the drink. Sometimes it Read more

Hostelworld Ultimate Race

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Sydney Harbour Bridge Australia
Photo Courtest of Hirsty.com.au

The Hostelworld Ultimate Race is one of the largest events ever held of its kind in Sydney for inbound tourists, working holiday visa holders and backpackers!! This is a FREE event for lucky selected participants sponsored by HostelWorld, offering 100 + race participants the opportunity to undertake a number of super awesome race-day challenges located at several of Sydney’s most iconic landmarks, whilst competing for prizes and giveaways to be awarded on a spectacular harbour cruise on completion of the race. While entries for the event are now closed. We’ve been lucky enough to secure 10 FREE tickets for our Read more

2014 Adventure Travel Awards

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2014 Aventure Travel Awards

The 2014 Adventure Travel Awards were held on Friday the 7th of November at the Rydges Sydney, with 34 awards on offer their were 250 guests in attendance and Australia’s favourite cricketer Kerry O’Keefe to MC the night. To give you some more insight into the awards in just two months over 33,000 votes were cast from 11,000 tourists and working holiday makers voting for over 350 Businesses across Australia and New Zealand.   Australian National Awards – Sponsored by Website Travel     Best Recruitment Service   Finalists: Workerswanted.com.au, Job Shop Perth & Job Search Australia   Winner: Fruit Read more

Kangaroos, A must see video

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Have you ever wanted to see a wildlife encounter or a kangaroo? Well here is two things you’ve never seen happen in the same place.     1. Two Kangaroos being Kangaroos   You won’t believe what happens next.  

12 Things That Aren’t Working for you in Australia

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Alf Stewart

So you’re working, studying or travelling in Australia and of course like everyone else you have come over with certain expectations about life on the road what the land down under will bring. Well before you know it we are sure that you’ll be running into these problems.