There were between 500,000 and 750,000 Aborigines present on Australian soil since at least 40,000 years when the first British settlers arrived in 1788. Today they represent only 2.3% of the population of Australia and the Aborigines suffer the worst scourges of poverty: alcoholism, drugs, ...
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In recent days, a very smart marketing campaign has just started on the Internet. To promote the paradise islands of the Great Barrier Reef, the Office of Tourism Queensland, Australia launched an international offering a job as any of us would like to win: keeper of a desert island! With ...
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Stroll between Nuku Hiva (the best) and Ua Pou (most intriguing), or escape to the Tonga archipelago so little known French rugby before a final renders this kingdom a little of that radiance that makes the headlines. Please stop in Australia or Fiji fly ...
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I wanted to show you how beautiful it is "a city at night ... And I have memories so precise spray perfume Pacific, grills cooked to perfection in the surrounding restaurants, cocktails colorful, boisterous music and laughter around, so I keep good memories of Sydney that I ...
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I am preparing some articles for you about my trip to Ireland, and I continue to sort the 900 photographs brought from Ireland so you can show them quickly. But let me first offer you this morning two little amateur videos I made during my stay in Australia last month ... Get ...
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So far I do not speak for a good reason when we go traveling for business, shopping is often reduced to the status of a wild race between two duty-free shops at airports dying at dawn (or Sunday). And I'm not a big ...
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The same day when I decided to go for a walk on one of the most famous beaches in Sydney in early April, local daily suddenly attracted my attention at an outdoor cafe German: a photo voluntarily "fantastic" of a great white shark, mouth open, was one of the Manly Daily ... As a diver I have ...
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I quickly made this time to show you my selection of photos within ten days since I have made only 900 in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. And I test the Picasa albums for Google. For you to tell me whether or not you like this presentation. For my part I ...
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When you travel you do not look likely to lock yourself in a movie theater at the end of the world. Especially when you've spent 24 hours cooped few days earlier (e) an aircraft, to abuse the system "movies on demand" on one of the nicest airlines I know ...
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Wednesday ... I'm between Roissy and Marseille, probably in a coma advanced. So this morning I offer just one picture, the very last one I made on Monday night, before storing the camera: on Circular Quay, opposite the Sydney Opera House, a huge cloud had just installed above the Central Business ...
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In this Tuesday morning when you read me, I am somewhere at 10 or 11 thousand feet, above the clouds, between Sydney and Singapore, with a heavy heart. I left behind me a young Australian man who was once my "little" and that, in eighteen months, has been transformed into an adult ...
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When the first British migrants arrived in Australia in one of the many bays of Sydney they cast their sights on a range of sandstone hills, offering a broad strategic view of the surroundings. This small settlement quickly became a prime commercial and maritime attracting whalers, gold miners, officers, sailors, ...
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In any trip organized by a provider, and around the world, yal'arrêt almost obligatory in the stalls (for the percentage returned to the driver by vendors) or in the shopping street, to please the tourists and increase the local economy of a few extra dollars. On our way in the Blue Mountains ...
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If one takes into account the reptiles and insects, Australia is known for holding the largest number of venomous animals on the planet: toxic frogs, snakes and other deadly poisonous jellyfish are a bestiary would not be complete without omitting perhaps the most effective and perhaps the most numerous, ...
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When you only have eight days to get acquainted with the sixth largest country in the world, we must make choices. Of course I would have liked up to Cairns to offer me a little dive on the Great Barrier Reef, but that meant three days counting the minimum return. And then ...
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If Nicole Kidman is in Australia that was Grace Kelly to Monaco, the flying foxes are in Sydney that the pigeons are the Parisians! And although some visitors are still discovering by chance, most come to visit them as other famous opera to worship the white tiles, all ...
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Jet lag has robbed me of sleep last night, lying down at 23:30 after a delicious Korean barbecue in a restaurant near the hotel, I suddenly woke up just before 4:00 am. And I can not sleep ... The day was particularly long and therefore I will not dwell too much tonight, tired ...
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Australia, I am! After an eventful journey, 20 hours of 11:30 p.m. turbulence on flight duration, and unable to sleep while enjoying the facilities of Singapore Airlines, whose films on demand, here I am finally at the end of the world. Not in terms of expatriation since a town on the ...
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At a time when you're reading this Monday morning as you begin your week in office, I'm still in the clouds above the island continent that I will explore for a week a tiny part, Sydney . Today I'll land at 19:50 local time, which means ... 9:50 in the morning hours ...
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I thought I would like to announce that in one week, not to make you linger too then about my adventures in Australia. But I'm too impatient and you're told: I'm leaving for Sydney in two weeks! For me it is the pleasure of discovering a new destination because I do not ...
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