Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, June 2, 2015: Warped Reflections, Melbourne
June 1, 2015
The city of Melbourne (Australia) is my home town, and I enjoy being a tourist in my own city. It has been called one of
The city of Melbourne (Australia) is my home town, and I enjoy being a tourist in my own city. It has been called one of
This was a tough travel quiz but one of our travel sleuths was able to solve it! Congratulations to Jill (Jill’s Scene) for figuring out the name of the animal (a small marsupial known as a Quokka) and where this was (Rottnest Island off…
No complaints received yet from Antarctica, but its now the only continent with no Boeing 787 Dreamliner service from United. United, which has been the fastest U.S. airline at getting the 787 into the fleet, is adding flights this week from Houston…
U.S. ski resort operator Vail Resorts has paid $136 million to take over Australia’s popular Mount Perisher ski area in the Snowy Mountains. Vail, which owns a dozen or so ski areas in the U.S. (Colorado, California, Utah, Michigan and…
This is the sort of headline that makes you scratch your head. Of course, no one should be allowed to dump waste on one of the world’s greatest and most endangered natural wonders. And yet…it is not just that the Australian government has now…
Qantas, which has some of the world’s longest routes because it’s, well, far away, is about to pioneer a new inflight entertainment on selected flights—Virtual Reality headsets which will, among other things, let you “be” in other places besides…
On a recent trip back home to Melbourne (Australia) , we took a leisurely stroll down Swanston Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the centre of the city.
Australia is well known for its country and outback towns. The region of Gippsland is located in the south-eastern part of the state of Victoria. It covers an area of around 16,000 sq.miles (41,000 sq.klm) and is an economic, rural area…
The famous Twelve Apostles is Australia’s second most popular tourist attraction; the first being the Sydney Opera House. It is one of my favourite places in the world which always has me in awe and with a feeling of being at one with nature whenever I visit.
The city of Melbourne (Australia) is my home town, and I enjoy being a tourist in my own city. It
This was a tough travel quiz but one of our travel sleuths was able to solve it! Congratulations to Jill (Jill’s Scene) for figuring out the name of the animal (a small marsupial known as a Quokka) and where this was (Rottnest Island off…
No complaints received yet from Antarctica, but its now the only continent with no Boeing 787 Dreamliner service from United. United, which has been the fastest U.S. airline at getting the 787 into the fleet, is adding flights this week from Houston…
U.S. ski resort operator Vail Resorts has paid $136 million to take over Australia’s popular Mount Perisher ski area in the Snowy Mountains. Vail, which owns a dozen or so ski areas in the U.S. (Colorado, California, Utah, Michigan and…
This is the sort of headline that makes you scratch your head. Of course, no one should be allowed to dump waste on one of the world’s greatest and most endangered natural wonders. And yet…it is not just that the Australian government has now…
Qantas, which has some of the world’s longest routes because it’s, well, far away, is about to pioneer a new inflight entertainment on selected flights—Virtual Reality headsets which will, among other things, let you “be” in other places besides…
On a recent trip back home to Melbourne (Australia) , we took a leisurely stroll down Swanston Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the centre of the city.
Australia is well known for its country and outback towns. The region of Gippsland is located in the south-eastern part of the state of Victoria. It covers an area of around 16,000 sq.miles (41,000 sq.klm) and is an economic, rural area…
The famous Twelve Apostles is Australia’s second most popular tourist attraction; the first being the Sydney Opera House. It is one of my favourite places in the world which always has me in awe and with a feeling of being at one with nature whenever I visit.