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  • Favourite Lighthouses of Australia

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    Our Top 10 List: Favourite Lighthouses of Australia [ more Top-10 Lists ] This top-ten list is of our favourite lighthouses, seen in our travels around Australia, mostly from our 2008 around Australia trip. 1. Robe, SA This is actually an obelisk, but serves the same purpose as a lighthouse. That was probably the reason it made…

  • Favourite Extremes of Australia

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    Our Top 10 List: Favourite Extremes of Australia [ more Top-10 Lists ] This list is our own personal top-ten extremes we have seen in our travels around Australia, mostly from our 2008 around Australia trip. We have already listed all the Australia Big Things, just some of the extremes we have come across in our…

  • Australian Big Things (Complete List)

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    Our Aussie Big Things List [ more Top-10 Lists ] Australia is well known for its big things scattered across the country. We often go out of our way to find them when we are out on the road. Here is a collection of over 60 “big things” that we have come across in our travels…

  • A Day at the Races – the Kangaroo Cup

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    During our year-long trip around Australia in 2008-09, we were fortunate to be on Kangaroo Island in South Australia for the social event of the year, the annual Kangaroo Island Cup race day. It was a party weekend for the island. On the Friday night before the race, in the town of Kingscote, there was…

  • 2008 Christmas Letter

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    Rob, Clare and Olive would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We hope Santa is good to you this year, and brings lots of festive cheer! It has been a big year for us, being on the road travelling around Australia for much of it. Since our last email from Darwin, we have…

  • Along The Road – An Oz Trip Update

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    In case you have been wondering what we have been up to, here is an update on our around Australia trip. It has been an excellent adventure so far. After 3 weeks in Darwin we finally got itchy feet and got on the road again. We are currently in Katherine, enjoying the local gorge and river. We…

  • 2007 Christmas Letter

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    2007 has been an amazing year for us with the new addition to our family. Olive has kept us on our toes and is getting more gorgeous every day. We wish you all a wonderful Christmas and hope the New Year brings much happiness to you and your family. We hope to see you sometime soon, Love…

  • 2006 Christmas Letter

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    Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas.  May your dreams be fulfilled in theNew Year. We have had a very busy year in 2006. We returned from our around the world trip, then relocated our lives to Melbourne, found new jobs, made a baby, and to finish it off, did some work in Santa’s workshop!  We hope…

  • Rob and Clare’s Around the World Trip 2005

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    Here is the daily diary entries for each country stopover of our trip around the world in 2005, in the order of travel. We started and finished in our home country of Australia, and visited 30 countries. Yee ha. Australia Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras Guatemala Belize Mexico USA UK Turkey Spain Egypt France Italy Slovenia…

  • Stencil Art from the Mexican City of Oaxaca

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    We have been on a few trips to Mexico, the longest was four weeks that we spent travelling around in 2005. On the visit to the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, we enjoyed a walk around town, and were captivated by the interesting architecture, and the quirky stencil art we found on the buildings. It…