Don’t know what to do this weekend? You can’t find a special event, festival or concert in your city?
Come to Melbourne / Nomads All Nations Backpackers Hostel and visit the beautiful city for a few days. If you book for 3 nights, you can get the 4th night for free. But that is [...]
Want an impressive sunset followed by the twinkling lights of the beautiful city of Melbourne?
Down on the Southbank is the Eureka Skydeck, an 88th floor 360 degree viewing platform. Not only does the Skydeck offer free telescopes pointing at all the major sights in Melbourne but it has ‘The Edge’. ‘The Edge’ is a frosted [...]
Down at Nomads All Nations Backpackers Hostel we have a van, its not an especially good van but it has an engine that works, a gearbox that tells you when it wants to go in to 3rd gear and it can carry 10 people to wherever the inspiration takes them.
This week someone came up to [...]
Well Summer is well and truly over in Melbourne, but this city has lots of things to do in the cooler months. The funky bars, brilliant restaurants and abundance of places to see outside of the city are always in full swing. Why not hire a car for a few days and stay [...]
Last weekend was the Ripcurl pro, basically the best of the best surfers get together and tear it up on the waves for the coveted bell trophy. I decided to use this as inspiration and took 2 days of surf lessons. The beaches by Torquay along the Great Ocean Road are excellent for beginners with [...]
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This blog will be in Dutch, German and English… I have to speak 3 languages every day. In the beginning it was very difficult to switch every 5 minutes but now it becomes better and better…
Last weekend was awesome. I went to the Melbourne Formula 1 and I didn’t [...]
Melbourne hailstorm and flash flooding
Saturday the 6th of March started like any other saturday. I had a couple of drinks on friday so I stayed in bed until noon. When I woke up I wanted to do something healthy. So what did I do? I went to the gym for a workout. You know, [...]
I now live in Melbourne and to be fair I’m an ex – backpacker. I am married to an Australian and now have my permanent residency. For most of my working life, I have worked in the travel industry – having started as a resort representative in Turkey way back in the [...]
All those who are thinking of travelling to Europe – have you thought about working a ski season? If you have work rights in the UK – you can work in Europe!
I worked ski seasons for over 20 years and had the most wonderful time. I started off working as a ‘chalet host’ and ended [...]
I am a dutchie from a town in the east of Holland who is currently doing an internship in Melbourne at Nomads All Nations Backpackers Hostel. My town in Holland is the home of only 2700 people living their lives by doing pretty much the same thing every week. You know those places where everybody [...]
