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21/1/2012 One evening, on our way out to dinner, Deb’s Australian neighbour enlightened us on some of the scary, poisonous animals in Melbourne and Australia. The whole conversation started because this neighbour, Ray, had called us over on our  way out one evening, to show us something in the neighbour’s garden, which he was looking… Read more »

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17/1/2012 On Tuesday it was 34 degrees and absolutely boiling hot but thankfully there was a strong wind which cooled things down. That’s the hottest temperature I’ve been in. We got tram 109 to St. Kilda and got off at Luna Park, which is a well known amusement park in Melbourne. It will be celebrating… Read more »

Posted by & filed under Travel Country: United Arab Emirates.

15/1/2012 I had been waiting with baited breath for the last two years, to go back to New Zealand but only really started planning my trip in August this year. After a variety of circumstances, mostly work related, I decided to check out flights and finally booked my flight in August. Now I wanted to… Read more »

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16/1/2012 So the next leg of my journey to New Zealand was my flight from Dubai to Melbourne at  3am, which took sixteen hours. We had to change planes at Kuala Lumpur, so had an hour to wait here. I was sitting beside this elderly Arabian woman on the plane and when the food came, I looked… Read more »