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Author Archives: Amy & Kieron

5 reasons why all travelers should be using Foursquare

Location-based social networks may well be the next big thing in social media. Facebook’s recent entry into the market with Facebook Places highlights the strong potential of location-based services such as BrightKite, Gowalla and Foursquare. Foursquare, the most popular of […]

Store our belongings or sell the lot?

We have 7 weeks until we move out of our 2 bedroom apartment and back into a single room at Amy’s parents house. This might seem like a pretty simple move but as the moving date approaches, we face quite […]

A look at Australian rhyming slang

Planning on coming to Australia any time soon? Hurry up and get on the frog and toad, china plate! We’ll be waiting for you at the rub-a-dub-dub with a couple of Britney Spears. If only we could see the bewildered […]

Saving for long term travel

255 days until 30 June 2011, our estimated departure date for this trip of a lifetime. That leaves us 8 months to research destinations, organize our itinerary and book the necessary tickets/accommodation. But more importantly, that’s 8 months to save […]

Why long term travel?

Most people we know live very similar lives – not necessarily because they want to, but because they are led to believe by society that this is what life is all about. Once you hit the age where you are […]