Since we arrived in the Blue Mountains, we kept on wondering why they call it the Blue Mountains. If you take a closer look, they are orange, red or green, not blue at all. On our four-day excursion we came up with several explanations, but weren’t entirely sure. So: Google to the rescue!!! It’s not…
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Our tips to do Sydney on a budget: Find an awesome host family. Take the bus into the CBD: it’s not only very efficient, it’s also pretty cheap! (and you don’t have shelf out the $$$ to park in the CBD, pay tolls, etc.) Don’t have drinks anywhere, unless it’s happy hour. Our favorites: 2…
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Australian hospitality has no limits! While traveling Down Under we meet new people practically every day. And whether you spent a couple of hours with your newly made Aussie friends or several weeks, doesn’t matter. Almost everybody invites you into their homes, gives you a beer and some snacks. But when we got invited to…
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Whether Sovereign Hill is amazing, will remain a question to us (for now). While traveling in Australia, lots of people recommended this gold rush theme park to us. So once we arrived at the entrance we were absolutely thrilled! Until… we saw the admission fee… Frankly, it’s not thát outrageous ($55.50/pp), but to be honest,…
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Back in October, we were so pleased to find an AWESOME deal on a flight back to Belgium. We are supposed to take a Jetstar flight to a stopover in Bali for 10 days, and then a flight back via Bangkok straight to Brussels. Included in our plan was a stay in a fancy hotel,…
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