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Day 2: Ballarat
This is the second post in a series about our four-day trip in the Victorian countryside. The trip takes us from Melbourne to Ballarat, from Ballarat to the Grampians then on to Horsham. We woke up fairly early, since my brother-in-law has to be at work by 8:30am. Thanks to Google Maps, the accomodation we…
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Day 1: Melbourne to Ballarat
I just got back from a 4-day mini-holiday in the Victorian countryside. My brother-in-law had a teaching job in Ballarat and another in Horsham so he decided to bring the whole family. This is the first post of a series about our trip to Ballarat, The Grampians and Horsham. We started out late, leaving Melbourne…
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Cebu Pacific Piso fares to Xiamen
I was all set to post something else, but this Cebu Pacific just came in: Fly to Xiamen, China for as low as ONE PESO! Visit Xiamen, famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese, including some of the Philippines great Taipans. The seat sale will run from December 10 to 16, 2007 and…
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Win A Lonely Planet Travel Journal!
This year has been good to me. The first minutes of 2007 found me here in Melbourne, atop a bridge with the whole neighborhood, looking out to the city where the fireworks are. Though I never got to travel anywhere else this year, I was able to travel around Australia. I joined in the revelry…
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Manila through the eyes of an Aussie
When people find out that I am from the Philippines, and it turns out that they’re thinking of traveling there, the usual question that they ask me is “is it safe to travel there?” I have been living in Manila since 1980, and lived 27 years with only minor cuts and bruises, usually caused by…
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Hot Air Ballooning in Melbourne
Very few things can wake me up at the ungodly hour of four in the morning. One of them is an early flight, and this is one early morning flight you don’t want to miss.
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Thankful for twenty-seven years
I woke up on my 27th birthday, and my first thought was “what the crap? Is that sunlight streaming through my window?!” Not the best way to wake up, I admit, but there’s a reason for that. You see, I have something grand planned for my birthday, but due to weather concerns and scheduling conflicts,…
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State of the Nina address
You can stop blinking now, this really *is* JustWandering.org 😉 I got bored with my previous theme and wasn’t really happy with it anymore, so here’s a fresh new one to match my mood. Today’s my last day as a 26 year old, so I guess it’s fitting to make the necessary upgrades today, no?…
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Oops, I did it again
After all my talk about missed opportunities and knowing the events happening around Melbourne, I totally missed out on David Beckham coming to Sydney gah gah gah David Beckham says he is been surprised by the reaction to his trip to Australia. The former Manchester United and Real Madrid player is in Sydney for an…
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