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Australia: Far Too Dangerous and Way Too Livable

by BobinOz on February 12, 2010

in Australia's Places

I feel such a fool. All the effort I have put into my category Australia’s Bad Things, with 46 post so far and probably more than 30,000 words and now I discover how I could have covered it all so much quicker.
A couple of comedians managed to condense it into just over a minute! On [...]

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Park(ing) Day in Brisbane 2009

by BobinOz on September 18, 2009

in Entertainment Australia

You can never find a park(ing) space when you want one!
I had a great idea for today’s post. You see, today is Park(ing) Day. Park(ing) Day began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design group turned a parking space into a park in a protest against the amount of space being allocated [...]

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Moving to Australia: Baggy’s Story

by BobinOz on July 2, 2009

in Moving To Australia

Last week I concluded my story about how we moved to Australia. If you read the whole series you will know from part six, taking the dog, that we brought our dog, Baggy, out to Australia with us.
This is Baggy……

Baggy went to Australia almost a month before we did. But what that meant was we [...]

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And the Best City Ever to Live In is….

by BobinOz on June 12, 2009

in Australia's Places

Drum roll please…..
Vancouver! Ra Ra Ra!
And the next best city is……..more drums…..
Vienna! More Ra Ra Ra! (at a slightly lower volume)
But I thought this blog was about living in Australia? Well yes, it is. And for those of you who have stuck with this post past the boring bits, that is the bits that are [...]

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Pit Stop at Port Macquarie

by BobinOz on January 23, 2009

in Australia's Places

We arrived at Port Macquarie early evening. Port Macquarie has a population of about 36,000. That may not seem big to you, but it’s big enough to make it 40th in the list of Australia’s largest towns and cities.
We had chosen Port Macquarie simply because it was about halfway between Yamba and our destination for [...]

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Where’s My Australian Holiday?

by BobinOz on January 16, 2009

in Australia's Places

I knew it would happen. But I didn’t think it would happen so soon and so often.
What’s the problem? Booking accommodation last minute during the summer holidays? No. Finding stuff to do to amuse my 4 year old daughter? No! Not that either, she’s having a whale of a time. Traffic? No! You know it’s [...]

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