Posts Tagged ‘australia’

WOMADelaide – Top 3 Australian Festivals.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

WOMADelaide
WOMADelaide  is Australia's largest and most appreciated world music and dance festival. For four days in 2010 Adelaide's botanic gardens will turn into an enormous festival which attracts over 70,000 people over the event with about 10,000 of them coming from interstate and overseas specifically for the event itself.
At a festival with arts, dance, food, [...]

Mardi Gras – Top 3 Australian Festivals.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Mardi Gras.
On one glorious day at the end of summer, Sydney transforms itself into a fabulous glittered monstrosity also known as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. It is the world's premier gay and lesbian arts festival and has a world famous parade that weaves its way through the heart of Sydney leaving behind [...]

Aussies Honour Pioneer of the Skies

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The pilot who made history in 1936 is being honoured by QANTAS with her name, Jean Batten, being painted on the side of an Aussie plane.
A century after her birth, QANTAS has celebrated her record breaking feet of flying from Britain to Auckland by naming its 75th Boeing 737–800 after the famous pilot. The new [...]