We will be housesitting in Sydney from later this week until January 3 rd 2013 when we fly off to New Zealand for a month or so. We haven t finalised our plans yet, and want to be as flexible as we can, depending on what crops up. We will return to Australia sometime in February, eventually making our way to Melbourne for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, before heading defination airline reservation system back home to Spain on March 19 th 2013.
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defination airline reservation system The sleek, white, Spanish-built AVE train sports the kind of futuristic snout more familiar on Japan s Bullet Trains. With a journey time of 2 hours 35 minutes, no lengthy security checks or waiting at airport gates to contend with, and ample leg-room with comfortable seating, the AVE train is a vastly superior experience to any budget airlines over the same route, in terms of price, time and comfort.
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