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.