AsiaRooms.com Hotel Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Nice hotel in a desertic area!
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Melbourne, Dec 31 (ANI): The Outback state of Australia, Alice Springs, is to be outed as the lesbian capital on national television. The television documentary takes a look at the town’’s culture of same-sex love, with residents estimating its population to be made up of 25,000 lesbians. Destiny in Alice, a 25-minute co-production by the ABC [...]
Dysthymia (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
... is what Alice Springs would be called ... if it was in England, that sceptre'd isle . Our correspondent Ms Elsie Wear is there so you don't have to be. Damn fine blogger. get over there to see the view from elsewhere ... a land of sweeping plains . I love her far horizons, I love her jewelled sea. Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
I've been wanting to refer to a map so you all know what I'm talking about so...I've put red boxes around Sydney Cairns Brisbane Melbourne and Ballarat where I'm going on Monday. And Also Alice Springs and Darwin where I should be going in FebMarch.This is not in chronological order1 Cape York Peninsula all the places I went to on my Cape York trip are along the main road up there or on
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
You’d be hard put as a newcomer to guess from this report what exactly had turned Alice Springs into such a dangerous, anarchic town: …
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
Natasha Robinson; 22/12/08 It is the gateway to one of Australia’s most famous tourist icons, Uluru, a red-centre oasis that is marketed as a cosmopolitan, urban slice of the outback. But Alice Springs is in meltdown … Quarterly crime statistics published late last week by the Northern Territory’s Justice Department show that across the Territory, assault [...]
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
IT is the gateway to one of Australia's most famous tourist icons, Uluru, a red-centre oasis that is marketed as a cosmopolitan, urban slice of the outback.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Entry by JulesThursday 181208Following a well needed full nights sleep in a 'normal' bed we left the hotel to get some breakfast and wonder around Alice Springs. We had a few hours to fill before our train was due to leave for our journey south to Adelaide and really wanted to see some of the Aboriginal art on display in many of the galleries around the town.In the first gallery we visited we w
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Up at 5am this morning to catch our tour bus for our 3 day saffari...The journey to Yulara village is a long way from Alice Springs. We made 3 stops on the way down and got there at 12.30pm.At the first stop we got to see a dingo. We then stopped to get a picture and view of Mount Connor a large rock with a very flat top wasn't completly eroded when under the sea due to the different type of roc
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
When we were in Alice Springs we found a job working on a cattle station and store run for the Aboriginals in the middle of the bush. It sounded ideal we really wanted to be a bush aussie and live in the harsh terrain. In theory it was a nightmare but not because of the job and land because of pain in the arse managers. I'm not gonna witter on about them but they were lazy lying smoking in
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Arrived on flight from Alice Springs to Cairns on Friday Evening with Jo and Gaz checked into accomodation and headed straight to The Lagoon a huge open air lido on The Esplanade for a quick swim before finding a place to eat. The Lagoon stays open until 10pm and was very busy as the weather in Cairns is very hot and humid. Then had a fantastic meal in The Raw Prawn .Next day we were collected b
The Better Part of Valour (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
A short story about Alice Springs. It’s a strange thing; but two years in Alice left me with more memories than over a decade in Canberra. In her flight from ruined love, she drove across the desert to where the road ran out. Though wrenched with hurt, she still noticed the lines of [...]
Lounge of the Lab Lemming (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Rio Tinto is letting go 14,000 people in an attempt to reduce debt and react to rapidly deteriorating market conditions. This is: -60% of the population of Alice Springs. -20% more than the entire attendance of next week's AGU meeting. -One person per month since the reign of Charlemagne.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Time to leave Adelaide to go to train station to catch The Ghan to Alice Springs. The Ghan is a very long old train that travels across Australia from Adelaide via Alice Springs then on to Darwin. We arrived at train station early to see the train carriages arrive and take photos before the crowds arrived.We had booked some time ago in UK and were travelling by Gold Kangaroo service which gave us
Blog.RAJF.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Today was a day all about the heat. It was one of the hottest mornings so far and carrying our packs wasn’t pleasant. At the check-in the guy commented on how hot it was going to be in Alice Springs, [...]
