October 2009
11 posts
Elle gets multicultural for Challenge 6
For her final challenge, Elle, of Pipe Dreams and Professions, embraces the culture of NSW and takes her readers on a tour of the city covering everything from sight seeing, eating traditional bbq food, and even a spot of animal watching over at the Taronga zoo.
A literary journey through Sydney
Miranda over on Send me to Sydney decided to take us down a different route with her final challange. She chose to express her love of literature by selecting three books all of which were linked to Australia in someway. Sound intruiging? Head over to her blog to become inspired.
JJ's top 6 places
JJ took us on an awesome tour of Sydney by choosing six places she would love to visit in Australia, one of which being Luna Park, the 80 year old heritage listed theme park.
A voyage of discovery
Miranda’s fith challange to create a Sydney themed event took her to the streets of London, in an attempt to find parts of New South Wales down in the heart of the capital. She used a map to plan out her journey taking her from the Australian war memorial in Hyde Park, through the Victoria and Albert museum and ending at Sydney Place in Kensington. All in a days work! To follow her voyage in...
Awesome guide
For challenge 6, Mils put together a tremendously helpful travel guide for those interested in visiting New South Wales and Sydney. To make it even simpler she converted it into a PDF file so you folks can keep it and read it whenever you want.
Check it out here.
Blue Mountains
Anthony chose Sydney’s Blue Mountains for his challenge 6 as he revealed they are one of his favourite features to look for while on holiday. He tells us more about the mountains in his post here.
Shrimps on the Barbie
JJ from Love London managed to escape from her sickbed for the day to put on a special Aussie ‘shrimps on the barbie’ feast for her and some blog pals.
"Australians are among the hardest-working people...
This inspired Elle to donate her £200 event money to the Australian branch of Make A Wish, a charity which helps out children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Strictly Ballroom
Lottie and co donned their best waltzing gear and headded down to Mount Merrion for their ballroom themed night. To see more of their antics, have a look here.
Mils takes on Challange 5
Just some of the footage from Mils’ NSW themed evening which consisted of wine tasting, kangeroo sarnies and a Sydney-inspired theatre trip. For more photos and even a video or two, head over to Sourrain.com
Anthony at the Italian GP
Anthony was already off to the Italian GP for Challenge 5, but he did manage to bring a bit of Sydney flavour to the event. Have a look at his exploits here.
September 2009
15 posts
The Annatrip
Another beautifully written literary effort from Elle who discovers ‘the Annatrip’
“Anna edged closer. The creature, whatever it was, was a jumble of everything! It had the colouring of a tree frog around its arms and legs, a rich red and orange colour that contrasted wildly with its dull body fur usually found on bandicoots. Around its neck was a frill, identical to those of...
August 2009
24 posts
The Second Challenge.... Fashion!
This was a tough old brief… We asked or voices to use Sydney to inspire the creation of an outfit, and then make it, draw it or wear it!
As in week one - some epic responses followed…
Sydney Tennis →
Xkonstantine (not her real name) has opted for another coin based effort, this time using the aussie love for tennis to inspire her thinking. Another game board one can download and play - what are you doing tonight?
Sydnut Surfers →
Slickly presented and as nice to play as it is to look at, Tarik utilised the key sporting ingredients of beer, shots and peanuts to create an Aussie marvel!
Silly surfing →
What other household games require a roll of duct tape, an ironing board and taping your other half to the wall until they fall off. Splendid work JJ!
Sydney Challenge – A Sporting Chance →
‘National Lottie’ has created this effort which works as a drinking game, or, if you’re feeling a bit naughty, strip poker rules apply… That works for us!
Results of the Sydney Cricket challenge...
Are in!
We’ve posted up 5 of the splendid entrants today, and will be following them with another 5 tomorrow.. Just make sure to set an evening or two aside to play these as they’re terrifyingly addictive!
So, in no particular order, enjoy the fine work of ‘The Sydney Awesome Tourists’ below…
Wicked Wicker Wicket →
Sausage flinging, lager drinking Poms and tea-sipping Brits… Everything the ashes offers, but unlikely to be called off for rain. Quite the video!
The Sydney Gold Cup →
Literal entry sure to set the heart a-racing from Elle - an interesting idea and oh so literary…
Hamster Customs Cricket →
Lets play a word association game: Cricket *pause…* Hamster - genius..! The only hamster based cricket I’ve ever seen
Sydney Bowling →
Complete with downloadable pitch and everything, Angel has merged a veritable heap of Sydney sports into this addictive coin-based game…
Awesome Tour of Sydney – Internationals Rule →
One of the ‘Sydney Cricket ’ challenge games, submitted by Anthony - ideal for those who enjoy the odd pint of Guiness, and crafting pitches from inanimate objects…
First challenge – create a game based (loosely) on...
Suitably wined and dined by the New South Wales Tourism team (see the picture below), we unleashed the first of our six challenges on them at the end of the evening…
Come up with your own game based around a sport popular in Sydney
Aussie Rules Football, Rugby or Wallaby Wanging – the choice was completely open, with results to be presented in whatever form suited the game best.
We had whetted...
Steps to creating the Awesome Tour of Sydney?
Take 9 inspirational bloggers, ripe with creative talent so juicy you can taste it
Invite them to a virtual tour around Sydney, drinking in everything it has to offer from sport to fashion and beyond
Create one tantalizing task a week that showcases the cultural nuggets that New South Wales offers
Ask each of the bloggers and their communities to tackle said...