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IRISH MAN MISSING IN MELBOURNE
An Irish man has been reported missing in Melbourne.
He was last seen leaving a group of friends at the Irish pub P.J O’ Brien’s in Southbank at about 3:15 am on Saturday, July 19th 2008. His brother-in-law, Paddy Hughes said that Stephen left the bar and was making his way for Crown Casino when he disappeared. Stephen’s friend said that left in a good mood, was not heavily toxicated and would have had about $150 on him. All his possessions including his passport were still at his St Kilda residence.28 year old Stephen King is here on a one year working holiday visa and is only 3 weeks into his trip. He was staying with friends in St. Kilda.
The alarm was raised when Stephen, the tiler and bricklayer failed to meet them on Sunday, July 20th to watch a Gaelic football match. This was very unusual for Stephen as he has always been very close to these friends and has been since primary school.
Stephen had only spoken to his family at home in Ireland on Friday July 18th and reported to his parents that “everything was going great” and that Australia was “everything he had hoped it might be”. Stephen also had no immediate travel plans. Disappearing like this was completely out of character for him and very suspicious.
Stephen was last seen wearing a black jacket, red shirt, jeans and dark coloured shoes. He is about 160cm tall, with fair, short, spiky hair.
Stephen’s family and friends are devastated and appealing to anyone who may have any information or think they may have seen him. If you have even the slightest bit of information, which you may think is insignificant it may assist the police in finding Stephen. If you do have any information at all please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit www.crimestoppers.com.au or contact St Kilda police on 9536 2666.
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Surfside Backpackers Indys Backpackers Footprints Reunion
Hey guys
Hope your all well whatever part of the world you are in right now.
Well
Indy’s was without a doubt one, if not the best time of our lives. It
was the time of tiger faces, punch nights and numerous nights in the
Gaff!!!
As you may all know by now, Patrick and myself are
coming home to Ireland and England for a holiday next week… Can’t
bloody wait! We are organising a bit of an Indy’s reunion in Slaters
lovely pub THE ALBION in Kensington, London and really really hope you
can all make it. We are having it on Saturday 23rd August in London and
from any time around 8 ish we will be propping up the bar :-)
We
really really hope you can all make it.. It would be great to catch up
with you guys. Also please forward this to anybody else you cant think
of that I haven’t included. I don’t have everyone’s details so if you can
pass this on it would be great, thanks.
The address is below and its near Olympia train station in Kensington apparently.
Looking forward to it already.
Love Emma and Patrick
PS : Slater, cheers for hosting it hun xxx
PPS : Other half’s and mates are more than welcome - the more the merrier :-)
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New backpacking forums
Footprints backpacking forums, hello hello hello it might be a big echo from the empty backpacking and travel forums but we are sure they will soon become a travel hit.
Come and join the new footprints community site and get involved and you might even discover places you had not thought of or meet a new travel partner or save yourself from a common travel mistake.
Footprints backpacking forums brand new and awaiting you!
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New Footprints Blog - Hostel Life
Hi all, we have launched a new Footprints blog which will be mainly about hostels the good the bad and the ugly, we will also be adding a job index for getting work in hostels, who has work and what to expect. It will have more resources added to it as we go along and we would love to hear what resources you the backpacker find useful.
One think we have found with Footprints Down Under that it is simply to hard to find anything and navigate, this is partly due to the fact it grew quite fast but also as the platform it sits on is very restrictive in what we can make for it.
The new blog is far more scalable and we can add allot of search and navigation functionality. Footprints Down Under will get a face lift soon and probably moved to a better platform to make it’s thousands of pages easier to use and find.
Let us know what you need to know and we will make it happen.
Footprints is for backpackers made by backpackers………
Visit the new blog >> Click here for hostels blog >>
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Caught on camera just at the right moment
Were not just about backpacking fun we also like to give you a laugh and sometimes a cry in keeping to this is our latest set of caught on camera just at the right time. Do you have a photo caught just at the right moment? We would love you to send it in to caughtoncamera@footprintsbase.com ..Don’t forget Footprints Base launches for your simple hostel booking
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This oughta' give ya' nightmares!
ELECTRIC FENCE
Seems a sheep farmer was puzzled about the disappearance of some sheep on his farm. After a few weeks the farmer decided to put up an electric fence.
About a week later, this is what he found! (click the image for larger view)
Now , I know we’ve all heard of people being eaten by snakes & I bet most of us have said,
‘If a snake tried to eat me, I’d blah, blah, blah & ; get away.’
Well, this is a Python & they’re extremely aggressive & have a few teeth that they use to
hold their prey while they wrap around them & then constrict.
Could you get away if this one bit you & held on with it’s
‘few teeth?’
(Note: The wires are 10 inches apart.)
Click picture for larger view
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