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Found in Sydney: My Hotel!

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Mine! All mine! I guess I should be over getting excited about seeing my name, but I guess we are all still 12 years old at times.

Found in Sydney: The Mexi-Can Meal

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The Mexican’t meal wasn’t nearly as appetizing

Entertaining Kids of All Ages in Darling Harbor

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The newly renovated Darling Harbor area in Sydney has one of the coolest play areas for children that I’ve seen in quite a while.  It’s simple but engaging, let’s kids explore the effects of their actions to undertand the physical principals involved, and it let’s em get totally soaked.  For a free, public play area, it’s impressively well designed. The area follows the journey of water as it flows from its source, through a series of well crafted gates and …

Outpost of Street Art in Sydney

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I won’t claim to be an art afficiando, as that would be a diservice to both afficianados and people who claim things, but ever since watching “Exit Through the Giftshop”, I’ve developed a huge fondness for street art.  Now I’m talking about serious street art, not just an angsty kid with a spray can.  There’s something about the creativity of the work itself mixed with the guts and committment that it takes to pull off a piece in the middle …

AirBnB: Big Thumbs Up for Traveling Locally

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In Sydney, we decided to try something new with our accomodation.  Instead of going the normal route of either cheap hotel or backpacker’s lodge / hostel, we stumbled upon a service known as AirBnB.  The service allows people with an extra room (or house/apartment/bungalow/RV) rent out that accomodation to travelers looking for a place to stay.  This means that renters get money for a room they already have, and travelers get a (generally) nicer room than they would otherwise, as …