This year Melbourne welcomed the fourth annual White Night festival; a twelve hour event that spans from 7:00pm on a Saturday night in the month of February until the early hours of 7:00am on the following Sunday morning. The event attracts thousands of people into the city centre and it was estimated that the 2016 event attracted more than 580,000 people. The main focal point...
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Today as our adventure continues it will be a sad day as our seven day trip with Busabout on the Iberian Adventure Tour comes to an end and we will pack our bags for central Madrid. Leaving Granada this morning we will make a few stops along the way from the picturesque Consuegra to the old medieval city of Toledo. We will end this portion...
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As the fun continues on this amazing adventure, this portion of the Busabout Iberian Adventure Tour features our departure from the Moroccan city of Tangier. As we make our way back from Africa, we arrive back on the European continent in Spain on route towards our next destination, the city of Granada. We arrived in Tangier by travelling with Busabout on the Iberian Adventure Tour which takes seven days to complete, mostly taking...
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the most famous sporting arena in Australia. It is one of the most recognised in the world as the home of Australian Rules Football and the birthplace of Test Cricket where “the Ashes” were born. For most of the year the hallowed turf is a no go zone for your average everyday person in order to keep the surface in a pristine...
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A new month, a new day and today on our Busabout adventure, a new continent. As we continue on the Iberian Adventure Tour we will head over to Africa and land in Morocco in the port city of Tangier, where we will be spending one night. This morning we pack up our things and depart after our short stay in Portugal and Lagos. As we head over the border,...
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The adventure continues on and today, this section of the Iberian Adventure tour with Busabout will see us leaving behind the Spanish city of Seville. After spending one night here we make our way further west, crossing the Guadiana River along the Iberian coastline which is the border between Spain and Portugal and onto the city of Lagos. Before we leave Spain for the next couple of days we will make...
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This morning we will start our Iberian Adventure tour with Busabout, beginning from the Spanish capital Madrid and making our way south to the beautiful Moorish inspired city of Seville. The seven day Iberian Adventure tour will take in many sights of the Iberian Peninsula. After our one night in Seville we head further south and cross the border into Portugal for two nights in...
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This morning the journey on the Busabout Hop-On Hop-Off network continues after the craziness that was the La Tomatina Festival. Today we leave the Mediterranean coast and the city of Valencia and make our way to the Spanish capital of Madrid. On this leg of the Busabout network we depart Valencia from outside the Purple Nest Hostel at 1:00pm, the late departure time is due to Valencia...
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One of the biggest expenses while travelling overseas for many people has been the bill shock received once returning home from a trip using a mobile phone in a foreign country. Roaming costs are extreme with the local phone networks blaming the overseas providers for overcharging them for customers using another network. While only recently Australian telco’s have started to reduce foreign roaming charges and forge...
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Every year on the last Wednesday of August the streets of a small village called Buñol just outside the Spanish city of Valencia come to a stand still as 22,000 people flock to the town centre for the world’s biggest food fight, La Tomatina. I was lucky enough to get amongst all of the chaos for the 2015 La Tomatina Festival, the 70th edition of the...
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Today the European adventure continues as we depart the city of Barcelona and join the Busabout Hop-On Hop-Off network for the first time heading off to Valencia, departing from the drop off/pick up point which is the Be Sound Hostel in the heart of Barcelona. For this leg of the Busabout network the coach departs Barcelona at 8:00am and is scheduled to arrive at the optional...
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Travelling to the Spanish city of Valencia doesn’t mean having to splurge a lot of money to stay somewhere decent, or for the budget conscious it doesn’t mean being restricted to staying in a crowded hostel. In comes the Total Valencia Blue apartment which is located in the heart of the Valencia old town, is perfect for exploring all the sites this city has to offer and it...
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It’s that time of the year again for me, after a long year of working my regular 9 to 5 job in the payroll office and spending a good portion of my free time to plan my next trip of a lifetime, I’m off again and this time I’m heading back to Europe for a six week adventure that will begin by landing in the...
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