Travel Forum / Destinations / Australia and NZ / September 2004

My pregnant wife and I currently live in Oxford, England and are
flying to Perth, Australia in Jan 2005 as I have a 13 month job there
starting January 17th 2005. We will be returning to England with the
baby after that.

We will be traveling to Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia
in February, and we want to bring back some type of "souvenirs" or
something for a classroom of 4th-6th grade students (about 10 to 12
years old). Does anyone have any ideas of what we can bring back

Anbody using a Magellan in New Zealand and if there is, what datum do you
use with the NZ maps?
Ta
Geoff

What sort visa would i need for a visit from Australia. I have a UK
passport.
ta
http://www.poms.co.uk/austsraliansimcard.htm

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...never mind) and it was sooo amazing landing in the dark.
Remember you must fly to Melbourne at night !

I'd like to do a driving tour of NZ and visit Australia as well.  Mostly
looking for scenery in NZ.  Don't mind walking a bit but not much for long
day hikes.  Haven't started looking into packages and planned itineraries
but open to suggestions.

We are thinking of going to Australia for a 6 week holiday in about 18
months time, there will be 6 of us, four adults two teenagers...
We need to work out some basic prices to see if it's possible, we know we
can get flights to Sydney (from England) for around £600, this isn't a

I'm visiting Australia in February next year and really want to spend my 5
weeks touring up the East Coast from Sydney to Cairns by motorbike but it is
very expensive to hire a bike for that long. Can anyone suggest an
alternative?

I'm planning to go with the Greyhound Aussie pass from Sydney to Darwin (as
a backpacker). And I have 45 days to do it. The journey itself takes 16
days. But is 45 days enough to experience the different sites. I know that
it is not as much time as most of you would recommend, but ...

Airfares seem to have gone up by about US$15 in the last month or so.
Does anyone know about the train service from Christchurch to
Queenstown?

Anyone recommend cheap car hire for 3 weeks in the Brisbane area?

which is the best web sites for the above?
Or does anyone have any UK phone numbers
Many Thanks
John

Well, me again...
Trying to find the cheapest airfare, and think I've found it. Will be
cheaper if I only stay three months, but is that really _enough_ to do
Australia? If I plan to work some places, and see Melbourne, Sydney,