Travel Forum / Destinations / Australia and NZ / November 2004

Is it a feasable idea while I stay in a suburb of Melbourne to vist Minyip
around the middle of December and perhaps stay there for a week or so ? Is
there much to see, cheap to eat etc ?
Wonder if you know what the hotel is like assuming there is only one ? Can I

Australia is a great place to travel and sight see. If you are looking
for info on traveling Australia there are some low air fairs on these
sights and great info about cruises, ext.

Myself and my girlfriend have three weeks (max), in which to travel from
Cairns to Sydney - August 2005.
I have never been to OZ before, and would really welcome some ideas and some
"local" travel tips (Lonely Planet book exhausted!!).

I'd like your advice on islands and resorts in the South Pacific that are
excellent for honeymooning couples.
Somewhere like Cook Islands, Samoa, or Tahiti.  All advice will be
investigated!

I'm just wondering on a trip from UK to Oz is there much concern on someone
taking a few radios AM/FM SW etc incl maybe one or 2 ham radio ie two way
walkie talkie type handhelds. Obviously not to be used to transmit in flight
but just to have with you is ok ?

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Should the first timer on a UK to Oz fliught be concerned about things still
since 9/11. Is the security about as good as it can get or are their roon
for improvments / more consistancy perhaps ?

I'm visiting Australia in a few weeks and am looking for a farmstay.
We would like to fly from Melbourne to Broken Hill and stay at a
working farm for a couple of nights before getting the Indian Pacific
to Sydney.

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travel around NZ?
Thanks a lot,
Matteo

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I hear the are pretty strict about making you pay if you go over your 20kg
allowance (I have read the website) - is this correct according to anyone's
experience.....?
I ask because I will be traveling with a bushwalking pack including food for an

I am considering moving to Australia. I would like to live in western Au,
hopefully some remote type costal area, and get a decent job there.
Nothing out of reach, I just want a decent paying job, enough to live off
of, and such. I currently live in the US, and just want out of here ...

Suppose there should soon come a way to make sea water fresh and usable at next
to nothing in price? An effect like having Australia surrounded by the stuff to
begin with? What would it mean to Australia? Of course there would still be the
need to transport it to the interior in ...