There is something about the welcome you get at a good Bed and Breakfast that really kick-starts any holiday. Some people like the impersonal efficiency of a big hotel – ‘can I take your bags sir?’ – but for me there’s a lot to be said for the intimacy of the B&B. Bed and Breakfast [...]
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Every year thousands of workers and students come to live in Australia by taking advantage of the many working visa options available. These visas permit visitors to live and work in the country for pre-determined lengths of time. Australia has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world. The working holiday visa enables young [...]
Category: Work and Travel
Each year thousands of students and recent graduates travel to the USA to take advantage of the work and travel visa. This visa enables them to work for 12 months and then to travel and explore the country for a period not exceeding 30 days The Work and Travel USA program assists young adults between [...]
Category: Work and Travel
Holidaying in Queensland is an invitation to adventure. The second largest state in Australia is so big that each of the its 14 regions has its own unique weather pattern. Nicknamed the place where “The Rainforest meets the Reef”, Queensland is vacationers dream come true. Home of the Daintree and Great Barrier Reef Visitors to [...]
Category: Geograpy
South Australia is home to the Flinders Ranges, Coober Pedy and Adelaide the “City of Churches”. From the beautiful majestic coastline of the Great Australian Bight to the eerie inland deserts of the outback, South Australia has an amazing treasure trove of sites to see and wonders to explore. A State of Contrast Most journeys [...]
Category: Geograpy
The timeless beauty of Australia is longingly dramatized in the poem “My Country” written in 1906 by the Australian poet Dorothea McKellar. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror [...]
Category: Geograpy
Aborigines (Indigenous Australians) travelled to Australia thousands of years ago via a land bridge that once connected Australia to Asia. They relied on the land for survival and used knowledge of the annual cyclic weather patterns, to hunt for food shared with family and nearby tribes. What happend throughout the 17th to 20th centuries A [...]
Category: Australia Facts
Australian cuisine was until recently influenced by its mainly British heritage and was largely based on the the concept of plate of food consisting of meat and three vegetables. In recent times however, Australia’s indigenous and multicultural heritages have introduced new foods and flavors to the Australian meal table. Many of these foods, mainly from [...]
Category: Australia Facts
Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians long before Europeans arrived. Ancient maps of the coastline predate the Dutch and Portuguese visits during the 15th and 16th century, and those of Indonesian and Japanese fishermen during the 18th century by at least 500 years. British explorer James Cook is credited with discovering Australia in the 18th [...]
Category: Australia Facts