Month: May 2015
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Great Ocean Road
Read more: Great Ocean Road“No warning seen from Otway’s lighthouse, On the coast a hazy gloom, Limestone cliffs stood quiet to welcome, Loch Ard to its doom.” “The Loch Ard” by Jim Low. Along the coast of Australia, there is a long and beautiful drive called the Great Ocean Road. This is close to the area known as Shipwreck…
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Marvelous Melbourne!
Read more: Marvelous Melbourne!After our whirlwind tour in Sydney, we hopped on a quick flight to Melbourne to check out what would prove to be a marvelous city. I really enjoyed Melbourne a lot. It’s large, but not huge with a population of about 4.8 million. This city feels like Toronto – cosmopolitan, with a very cool vibe. There’s a…
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Sensational Sydney!
Read more: Sensational Sydney!I think we’ve become used to all the short flights we’ve been taking over the past few months, because our 11 hours of flights from Hong Kong to Sydney (via Singapore) really seemed unusually long! So, after arriving in Sydney and getting into the timezone, we were ready to explore. We started out with an…
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Zai Jian China!
Read more: Zai Jian China!After a whirlwind tour through Guangzhou, Beijing and Xi’an, we headed back to Hong Kong in preparation for our next international flight. We had 2 days left in this amazing country and we decided we wanted to have a bit of last minute fun, so we decided a shopping trip was in order. But for those…
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Warriors Frozen in Time
Read more: Warriors Frozen in TimeImagine being frozen in time for over 2200 years…buried with your emperor, unable to move, and not seeing the light of day until the middle of the disco era! This was the fate of the Terracotta Warriors! This world-famous UNESCO World Heritage Site in Xi’an was the next stop in our China travels! Where did they…