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Not Your Average Skype Call: Calling Your Parents As You Jump Out of a Plane

17/3/2016

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Photo Credit: Jose Antonio Tapia Lopez
Modern technology is a wonderful thing for the avid traveller.
With video calls and the internet it is easy to keep in touch with loved ones back home. Even when spending months (or even years) away from home as you adventure the globe, it can feel like you never even left. In the eradicating-homesickness-and-getting-on-with-the-good-stuff kind of way, I mean. And if you're savvy with these things, you can even record your conversations for posterity, or for the internet to have a good, amazed, laugh.

While on a round-the-world trip this past December in Australia, Roger Ryan decided to Skype his parents at home in Ireland. He's lucky they answered.

​They thought he was on a bus.

He was definitely not.



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6 Tips for Haggling at Local Markets and Bazaars Abroad

15/3/2016

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Ever since I was a young boy, my grandfather used to take me haggling at many of the swap meets and farmers markets in and around the areas of Mississippi and New Orleans, where I grew up. It was early childhood exposure to this odd and electrifying culture of buyers and sellers that’s stayed with me throughout my life. Not to mention that it’s helped me to save a ton of cash.
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Travel and Haggle

Over the past few years, travelling the globe, I can’t help but be drawn to these same places of trade. Flea markets and bazaars, thrift stores and farmers markets. There is no better way, in my opinion, to view the best a culture has to offer, than by seeing what the locals literally have to offer... for sale.
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These can be intensely personal experiences with their own set of rules and expectations; each different culture has a set of their own. So let me give a few words of advice to help you get a bearing no matter where in the world you want to haggle.
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Haggling is Expected - if You Don't it Could be Dangerous


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Filling the Bucket (List): The Pink Lake, Western Australia

9/3/2016

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Photo Credit: Kurioziteti123
Lake Hillier, or as  most people know it, 'oh my god that lake is freaking pink, that's insane', is a pink-coloured lake on Middle Island, in Western Australia, off the coast of Esperance.

From above, the lake water looks bubble gum pink, with a strip of vegetation, dunes and glorious golden sands separating it from the blue Southern Ocean.

But wait – did you think there was only one pink lake? Why, no! There is in fact a second pink lake in the vicinity, with the aptly (though not very creatively) named Pink Lake being seven kilometres from Esperance.​
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But Why Are TheY Pink?


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Being a Tourist in Your Own City: SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium

25/2/2016

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Except for a short stint in Buenos Aires (great city, mind the pavements), I’ve lived in Melbourne, Australia my entire life. Unlike everywhere else in the world, if someone were to ask me “What should I go see there,” I’d look at them blankly and maybe mutter how nice my couch is to sit on in my PJs of an evening.
As people keep telling us, Melbourne happens to be the most liveable city in the world and, don’t get me wrong, it’s nice and all, not too crowded, pleasantish weather (but bring an unbrella just in case), really good food culture... I wouldn’t promote the public transport but at least they try.
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​So instead of squishing into an airplane seat between two strangers for endless, endless hours, we decided to explore our own city like the tourists do; with fresh eyes, filled with wonder. Like we haven't been here before.

We're hitting up the tourist hotspots, and why not start with SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium. Because penguins!
The Aquarium is made up of a number of interactive exhibits, built mostly for those less than four feet tall (nope, not me). A lot of the tanks have little hidey-holes underneath them with thick glass domes so that the little'uns can peer above them at fish swimming above them. Wish there were adult-sized ones.

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