Heading to Paris or Nice in the near future? Needing accommodation in France?
The Absolute Hotel in Paris
Well! Check out this site for:
Hotels in France
Hotels in Paris
Nice Hotels
So what would you be traveling to France for?
Perhaps you’ll be shopping, dining and visiting the many art galleries and museums as an important part of your stay in [...]
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Well, I’ve created a new blog, Australia Travel. Its an online accommodation, travel and tour booking facility for holiday, vacation and business travelers.
Australia Travel has two main sections:
1) Book Online
At this stage, Australia Travel has online accommodation booking for Australia only, set out by state and region. However, as the site becomes more established, [...]
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Looking to visit Madrid in the near future?
Well then, you’ll be wanting to check out the Madrid hotels.
One of the great four star hotels in Madrid is the Emperador Hotel Madrid.
Emperador Hotel Madrid
A perfect place for both business and leisure travellers, the Emperador Hotel Madrid offers cosy accommodation and convenient facilities.
Like to check out [...]
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My sister, Rosie, died the other day.
The timing could have been worse. As it was, we packed several days early and returned from our trip, via Melbourne. Two days drive to Melbourne from Roxby Downs in outback South Australia. But that’s nothing in comparison to the real issues and the brunt of the whole episode, [...]
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A dry stick in the sand ridge, the image enhanced by the warm light of the rising sun.
Naturally fomed animal sculptures abound in the timeless landscape of the arid region.
On the cliff overlooking Station Creek on Bosworth Station, two trees cling to their hard existance and watch centry over the normally dry, arid region creek [...]
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Well, G’day.
You’ll understand that everything doesn’t go as planned on these ATV camping trips and I’ve had to make some adjustments, taking into account problems with the camping gear trailer toward the end of the trip.
South Eliza Hut, abandoned for many years.
I tried to return to Arcoona homestead from Pernatty homestead, via South Eliza Hut, [...]
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The sand ridges are rich with an abundance of plant life from the arid region trees to little wildflowers.
Native pine is common in the sand ridge country of Andamooka. Unlike the imported pine varieties, native pine doesn’r rot readily. In fact, many of the original fence lines, made of native pine are still standing firm [...]
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G’day.
My view of the sand dunes or sand ridges of the South Australian outback has more to do with the detail than the overall landscape.
The sticks, shrubs and grasses, stumps, grains of sand, wind waves and other intriguing shapes. Then there are the colours and textures. All these and more go together to compose my [...]
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G’day.
Not long back from a week traveling on a motorbike (ATV or quadbike) in outback South Australia, following the great Australian explorer, John McDouall Stuart.
I was hoping to find and camp in Stuart’s camping spot at the Elizabeth, using the bearing he gave from Bottle Hill to the trees in the Elizabeth.
The sun was set [...]
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The other day I traveled to Pernatty Station, an isolated and vast sheep and cattle grazing property in outback South Australia.
Old telephone in the disused Pernatty Station office.
Port Augusta and Pimba are 173km apart on the Stuart Highway. Between is miles of lonely arid region country with the odd turnoff to a station or mining [...]
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