{"id":10660,"date":"2016-10-24T00:12:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2016-12-19T23:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:07:49","slug":"my-holiday-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/travel\/my-holiday-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore: Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student’s have been volunteering\u252c\u00e1to write reviews for a country they have visited, in order to give you readers a taste of the better life and provide tips and recommendations for the best places to go. The review for this week- Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Considering that my life at the minute consists of work and writing assignments, it’s nice to write a piece which is a retrospect of more fun and exciting times. During the summer of 2015, I spent a month in Australia wi\"img_4756\"<\/a>th my family, alongside our very own pet possum who liked to join us for evenings in the garden.<\/p>\n

While visiting the typical tourist attractions such as, DreamWorld, Australia Zoo, Surfers Paradise and more, the dread for going home got bigger day by day. Not only was the weather a dream, but the food was a piece of heaven. Whilst at Surfer\"bj\"<\/a>s Paradise, a massive Ben & Jerry’s sign caught my eye and sucked me into their ice-cream, milkshake, and sundae retreat. As determined as I was to finish one, I could never have done it. Although I’m always willing to give it plenty more attempts of course.<\/p>\n

Due to Australians celebrating their Christmas in the summer, we decided to have a Christmas day while we were there too (although it wasn’t on the usual day of celebration.) As weird as it was eating a roast dinner in the twenty degree heat with the sun shining, I wasn’t one to complain: why would yo\"ap\"<\/a>u with two Christmas days in a year?!<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of the whole month was having the window seat on the plane home, I could have watched the orange utopian sky forever! However it only lasted a few hours before we began flying through a thunder and lightning storm, which couldn’t have kept me any more awake.<\/p>\n

Whenever I think back to Australia, I wonder why on earth I didn’t take a gap year there. I think of the quote:<\/p>\n

“Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”<\/p>\n

By\u252c\u00e1Jess Keast-Towns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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