Monthly Archives: December 2011

Melbourne: From the CBD to Fitzroy

The YHA Central hostel is a relatively new outfit, located on Flinders Street in the building of an ex-city hotel and so it provided an ideal jump-off point to go out and explore the CBD and its surrounds. Our first … Continue reading

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Sydney to Melbourne on the Countrylink

The Melbourne Train was scheduled to leave Sydney’s Central Station at 7.15 a.m., so we left the hostel at 6.45 and searched for a cab at the nearest taxi rank (not far from the hostel, as it happens). We didn’t … Continue reading

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Sydney

Leaving the boat for the last time was a strange, if not liberating, experience. Our YHA hostel was located very nearby, on the crescent of the hilly Rocks area of Sydney (which wasn’t climb up to while carrying so many … Continue reading

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Arriving in Sydney: 3 weeks and 7,415 nautical miles from L.A.

The waters on the strait between New Zealand and the south coast of Australia are notoriously choppy, and it looks like we managed to arrive at the worst possible time. The boat was originally scheduled to stop at Eden, a … Continue reading

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Life at Sea

Twenty-three days at sea is a fairly long period of time to contend with, even when making the odd stop along the way. Although we tried to introduce some sort of routine, it was often difficult to maintain in the … Continue reading

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia consists of a breathtakingly beautiful group of islands (the largest of which is the main island of Grande Terre), which somewhat ironically, or perhaps torturously, were used by the French in the mid 19th Century as sites for … Continue reading

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