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The Tea Gardens of Good & Evil

December 13, 2020 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Hostel Environment

With misty-eyed misguided sentiment perhaps clouding our judgment, we downed our pints and ambled from the leafy civilised back streets of Woollahra to the concrete wind tunnel of the Junkyard, buoyed by the delights of summer. And let me tell you, the Tea Gardens did not disappoint.

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December 13, 2020 /Carlitos de Jeffers
The Tea Gardens of Good & Evil, The Tea Gardens, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, social distancing, Bondi Junkyard, Balcony Bar, Irish people in bondi, Australia, Marc
Hostel Environment

Prepping for the End of the World

March 03, 2020 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Hostel Environment, Immigration

As a die-hard backpacker, half the weight of my rucksack is already made up of Maggi noodles anyway, so I’m sympathetic, to an extent, about people prepping for hard times. The threat of coronavirus, however, has caused locals to buy up all the pasta, pasta sauces, rice, and toilet paper in a 10 kilometre radius. Who’d have thought people from Sydney’s eastern suburbs could be so self-absorbed and thoughtless.

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March 03, 2020 /Carlitos de Jeffers
Coronavirus, Coronavirus: Prepping for the End of the World, prepping for coronavirus, pandemic, COVID-19, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Top tips for coronavirus
Hostel Environment, Immigration

Backpackers in Need

January 30, 2018 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Employment, The Foreigner, Immigration

When I handed my CV to the bar manager I was deeply offended when he asked me to show evidence that I had (a) a valid visa, and (b) that the visa had work rights!

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January 30, 2018 /Carlitos de Jeffers
Backpackers in Need, The Tea Gardens, Bondi Junction, Discrimination, Chandrakant, Unlawful non Citizen, Irish
Employment, The Foreigner, Immigration
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