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    Wallabies, Waterfalls and the Uffizi of Ubirr: Kakadu National Park

    “There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” Charles Darwin Darwin, perched on the north coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, is perhaps the perfect city to be named after the British naturalist. With Litchfield National park to its south west, it is just a short hop to a wild menagerie of kangaroos, possums and even flying foxes to say nothing of the gamut of exotic birds that call Litchfield home. However, it is the roaming expanses to its south east that garner more interest. Kakadu National Park. It is a remarkable place. Expanses extend beyond every horizon, incredible…

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    Anatomy of an Aussie Road Trip

    I love inter-railing. Waking up in one city, with its history, cuisine and traditions and retiring in another complete with contrasting cultures and conventions is invigorating. Indeed, its sufficiently rousing to dispel the fatigue fostered by the sparse sleeping hours such a holiday affords. The maelstrom of currencies, customs officers and cantankerous train station clerks is both wearying but oddly ingratiating. Prime among the appeal is variety. Beginning your week sipping an espresso in Milan only to end it eating Goulash by the Danube or savouring Cevapi at Lake Bled has an appeal so enticing it borders on mesmeric. So what to make of an Aussie Road trip? Could moving…

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