Our travel bug is fatal
The manager of the pricey Gold Coast guesthouse you and your mates stayed at a few months ago has admitted that there was, indeed, shit on your bed when you checked in.
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The benefits of the business compared to the upkeep seem pretty limited, but that doesn’t stop him from running a hostel that he pretty openly despises.
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Eleven backpackers living in a sharehouse at 117 Woolgoolga Avenue have, in light of a crisis sweeping Australia, called a house meeting.
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Coronavirus is spreading across the world at an alarming rate. But more concerning than the virus itself is the panic accompanying it.
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If you want to leave the bushfires behind so you can get lit in paradise, we’ve scouted four of the best tropical destinations for you.
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A British lass driving at 140 km/h to escape a catastrophic bushfire on the outskirts of Sydney better not be
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An Australian tourism ad that’s heavy on stock footage of remote beaches and cuddly koalas paints an unrealistic picture of the Land Down Under, backpackers around the country have claimed.
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Australia’s most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat, has finally fucked off to join the Mile Deep Club in the darkest corner of Hell.
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An Australian immigration officer who spends his days crushing backpackers’ spirits can’t wait to hit one of Canberra’s two nightclubs.
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German backpacker Heidi Schlickenbocker is in for a surprise when she snuggles up in her sleeping bag tonight, with a friendly local tiger snake having decided to keep her company for the evening.
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While most return from their gap year with tiger selfies or veneral disease, Oxford grad Tristan Hughbert-Snargleton came back with something better: a high-vis vest and a pair of Redback steel-caps.
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Pickings are slim in the Australian country town of Strathbogie, as Scottish backpacker Huw McLoughon has just found out.
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