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Travelodge Sydney

Travelodge Sydney offers self-contained accommodation just 2 minutes’ walk from Hyde Park and trendy Oxford Street. The property features a fitness centre and each room offers a kitchenette and an LCD TV with satellite channels. Sydney Travelodge is located just 5 minutes’ walk from Museum Train Station. Darling Harbour is 2 kilometres away. Chinatown is […]

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Blue Mountains • Australia

New South Wales most popular national park with rugged mountains, walking trails, waterfalls and dramatic scenery and UNESCO listed in 2000. The listed and protected Blue Mountains, home to the Three Sisters, an unusual rock formation best viewed from Echo point and the opportunity to bushwalk and hike the many trails, for the outdoor enthusiast this […]

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Katoomba • Australia

Katoomba is well known for spectacular mountain views and extensive bush and nature walks in the surrounding Blue Mountains area. Katoomba is the chief town of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia and the administrative headquarters of Blue Mountains City Council. Ka-toom-ba is an Aboriginal term for “shining falling water” and takes […]

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Sydney Down Under • Australia

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, the state capital of New South Wales, the site of the first British colony in established in 1788. Situated on the south-east coast the city is built around Port Jackson, which includes Sydney Harbour, leading to the city’s nickname, “the Harbour City”. Exploring the city and harbour known […]

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Sydney Mardi Gras on TV

Sydney Mardi Gras 2009 is broadcast live on Australian television, featuring Joan Rivers as a co-host. An annual event growing in popularity celebrating sexual diversity, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trans Gender Community welcomes the world to a party full of colour, sound, costume and dance. I was lucky to be in Sydney for one of […]

Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world’s smallest continent. Australia is far from being the smallest country to explore. Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans, the world’s smallest continent and sixth-largest country by total area, Australia is often dubbed the ‘island continent’ and variably […]

LONDON SHUTS DOWN AFTER SNOW FALL

London sees the worst snowfall in 18 years and the city comes to a complete stop. Anyone who has ever visited or lived in London should already know that making anything work here is a real challenge, even when the sun shines there seems to be an excuse or reason why something failed to work correctly, but […]

BOXING DAY BLUES ON LONDON TRANSPORT

GATWICK EXPRESS MESS Gatwick Express and Transport for London may not always deliver, even though you pay full fare, do not expect full service. Travelling over the holidays can always be a bit of a struggle as services are reduced and you have some expectation of knowing you are armed with correct information in advance to plan […]

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New York City

The Big Apple, New York City, the most populous city in the USA, a most important port and major financial centre, on the mouth of the Hudson River, comprising five boroughs: Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. My first visit to New York City, and though I was expecting a typical North American city […]

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Florence • Italy 2008

Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy. The city is considered a cultural, artistic and architectural gem. Florence was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. Politically, economically, and culturally it was the most important city in Europe for around 250 years; from some time before 1300 until the early 1500s.

Bad Catania

Bad Catania is a modern and quirky bed and breakfast/self-catering apartments set in Catania‘s centre, a 5-minute walk from the seafront and the harbour. It is 219 yards from La Pescheria historic fish market and Piazza Duomo. Bad Catania soundproofed rooms combine design and modern art. They all come with air conditioning and a TV. Free […]

Palazzo Selvadego

Set in a 13th-century building 55 yard from St. Mark’s Square, Palazzo Selvadego offers air-conditioned rooms decorated with contemporary art. In-room massages are available on request. Rooms at the Palazzo Selvadego feature elegant furniture and parquet floors. They include a satellite TV and a kettle with teas and coffee. The private bathroom is complete with […]

Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal

Located just around the corner from San Marco Square, part of Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, breakfast is served in an outdoor restaurant on the canal. Very Impressed and excellent choice. Overlooking the Grand Canal, Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal is just 110 yard from Saint Mark’s Square. An American breakfast is served out on the […]

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Siena (Sienna) • Italy

A picturesque city medieval city in the region of Tuscany, Siena is located in the north of Italy south of Florence, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Siena was a proud, wealthy, and warlike independent state during the Middle Ages, until its defeat by Florence. It was a poor little city for a few hundred […]

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Venice • Italy

Considered by many to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it stretches across 118 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. This is one of those places everyone must have seen in pictures or movies, Venice is world known and famous for its canals, […]

Taormina • Italy

A small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, a popular tourist destination since the 19th century. Having spent a day in Taormina relaxing on the pebbled beach and clear waters, this is where you come to just relax, for it is not a large metropolitan resort. Build on the winding cliffs […]