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City Spotlight – Melbourne with Bee Wanderlust

Want to find out what Melbourne, Australia has got to offer? Check out this month’s City Spotlight guest post from fellow traveller Bee Wanderlust.

Mistakes We Made During Travel In Australia And What We Learned From Them

Everyone makes mistakes and that’s no different when you’re travelling. Here’s 3 travel fails we made in Australia and the lessons we learned from them!

Travel Journal: The Great Ocean Road

The first stretch of the Great Ocean Road turned out to be rather disappointing with heavy rain and freezing weather not really providing the Australian road trip atmosphere we had hoped for. Driving the entire

Travel Journal: Car Swap

Arriving back from Phillip Island we had arranged another hire car to be picked up at a rental place in Melbourne city. Having figured out the pick up point, we decided we didn’t want to

The Penguin Parade and Other Phillip Island Attractions

So our first night on Phillip Island we went to the biggest attraction on the island – the famous little penguins. It was rather cold sitting in the dark waiting for them to come ashore

Travel Journal: Getting to and Around Phillip Island

Today we travelled out to Phillip Island to go see the little penguins which come ashore each night. After checking the ferries it turned out to be cheaper to get a bus via the massive

Travel Journal: Melbourne

After our day of travel we reached Melbourne, thing is though we spent almost a week in Melbourne I feel we didn’t really see a lot. We were based in Flinders Street Backpackers Hostel which