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.
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 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.
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 more detail, head over to her blog.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Good news to report from JJ as her rather terrifying looking discovery ‘Wombiders’ are apparently “such lovely, happy little chaps, and would appear to make perfect, albeit strange looking family pets”.
Amongst other splendid creations, Lottie used inspiration to come up with the DidgereRoo - “a rare musical marsupial creature which plays hypnotic music from it’s throat through a vestigial Didgeridoo. The hypnosis is used to stun it’s prey which is actually a pretty useless technique as they are herbivores.”
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 the frilled neck lizard, but Anna couldn’t see the creature’s face - it was luckily turned in the opposite direction to Anna and Trip. It had the short ears of a kangaroo, but it didn’t seem to have the kangaroo’s excellent hearing. What was this thing?!”
Read on… http://ellefield.blogspot.com/2009/08/challenge-4-call-of-wild.html
Meet Merrijig, Milli’s creature created from a wealth of minds… It means ‘Good’ in one of the Aborginal tongue – the broad term Aboriginal Australians includes many regional groups that often identify under names from local Indigenous languages. (Merrijig is also a small town in the State of Victoria in Australia – about 744 km from Sydney)