A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Darwin, Australia by TravelPod blogger Amandaseims titled "Amazing adventures" Amandaseims’s travel blog entry: "Well my arrival in Darwin was pretty disappointing at first. I checked into my hostel, an 8 bed dorm at the YHA, and it was a pigsty even though it was all girls! There was so much stuff everywhere you could hardly move, plus an opened condom wrapper on the floor indicated that it wasn't the best place I could have checked into! That night was England vs Australia World Cup rugby match and no-one in my dorm was interested so I decided to set off on my own and watch it in a bar. First I went to Shenanigans and soon got fed up with an agressive Aussie guy shouting comments at the screen about Jonny Wilkinson-like he can hear you mate? I left and ended up at my hostel bar where I met a friendly English guy called Nick and we had fun winding up the Aussies once they lost the match and chatted till about 1am. The next day I decided to see what the city had to offer, not much as it was Sunday and everything is pretty much closed. It was stinking hot and high humidity so a swim was in order. I'd been told there was jellyfish in the sea so I asked the hostel staff but was told that swimming was fine so I set off to the beach with Nick - low and behold the woman in the hostel was full of poo as there on the beach were 2 lifeguards with big red flags. Not to worry as we saw an amazing sunset and that night the local ...