| 12 October 2007 -
Harlan and Homestay
Australia shared a stand at the recent AIEC
conference held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, 9th
to 12th October.
A record number of delegates, attended the conference, from
Victoria, Interstate and overseas. Lots of interest was shown
by delegates in both our airport services and the services provided
by Homestay Australia. One of the speakers mentioned the importance
of using services like Harlan for airport transfers. It is illegal
for Institutions to pay their staff or homestay families to
pick up students from the airport.
For more information about our Airport services please contact
us via email at: info@harlan.com.au
7 September 2007 -
Harlan has taken delivery of two brand new
Toyota Commuter mini-buses. These mini-buses increase our fleet
and will be used to pick up International students from the
airport as well as taking small groups on our various tours.
These buses will be fitted with a PA system for commentary and
also a DVD player and screen for the entertainment of passengers.
For more information see information on our whole fleet at
www.harlanshuttle.com.au/harlan/fleet.php
30 August 2007 -
Harlan often gets asked about how to get from
Melbourne Airport to Phillip Island by bus for major events
such as the MotoGP and the V8 Supercars. It is possible to travel
to Phillip Island using SkyBus and V/Line but this is a little
complex and messy.
Harlan proposes to provide a direct service from the airport
to Phillip Island and return for such events. The next event
is the MotoGP scheduled for 12th to 14th October and then the
V8 Supercars Finale, 30th November to 2nd December. There is
also the Pyramid Rock Festival, 29th December to 1st January.
If you are interested in making use of such a service please
contact us via email
info@harlan.com.au
25 January 2007 -
Harlan is proud to announce that is now the preferred supplier
of airport reception services for international students arriving
in Australia to study at Swinburne University.
Harlan provides an on-line booking facility that allows authorised
international students to make their own bookings for transport
and accommodation before arriving in Melbourne to study at Swinburne
University.
Harlan has been providing airport reception, on behalf of many
Universities for international students arriving in Melbourne
to study since 1995. Contact
Harrison Jorre for more information or an
obligation free quote.
5 December 2006 -
Melbourne
Lodge celebrates it's 1st birthday today (5th December).
Since opening our doors 12 months ago we have dealt with 63
Welfare Agencies and more than 750 women and their children.
Recently we formed a partnership with The
Father Bob Foundation to help raise awareness and funds
for our cause. There will be a combined first birthday and Christmas
party held at Melbourne Lodge today with many of our past guests
attending. See
the local press coverage.
8 November 2006 -
Harlan is proud to be appointed by an English
travel agency (Best at Travel) to provide transport Australia-wide
for their clients coming to Australia for the forthcoming ASHES
Cricket Tour (Commencing on 23rd November 2006 in Brisbane
and finishing in Sydney on the 6th January 2007). Harlan
Coach Tours will use its own coaches to transport the English
visitors during their stay in Melboune. We have subcontracted
the coach transport out to other bus companies in the other
States. Contact Greg
Conrick our Sales Manager for more information or an obligation
free quote. Click
for more info ...
27 September 2006 - Harlan
Coach Tours offers you a worry free transport option to
and from the many race days that form part of Melbourne's famous
Spring
Racing Carnival. For more information please contact
Greg Conrick our Sales Manager.
03 August 2006 - The 2006 Australian
University Games (AUG) will be held in Adelaide in late
September. Harlan Coach Tours will be using a number of luxury
coaches to transport University students from Melbourne to Adelaide.
If you require transport from Melbourne to Adelaide, and return,
for the Games please contact
Greg Conrick our Sales Manager.
29 June 2006 - Harlan
is proudly the official transport provider for the III
Commonwealth Tenpin Bowling Championship being held in Melbourne
between the 1st and 10th of July, 2006.
20 April 2006 - Harlan is a Gold
Sponsor of the English
Australia Agents Workshop being held in Melbourne 20 - 22
April, 2006. This worshop is organised by: English Australia
(EA), the national association for quality English language
colleges in Australia; and Australian Education International
(AEI), the Australian Government's international education network.
Harlan is providing transport for the delegates during their
stay in Melbourne as well as exhibiting Telstaus
"English on Wheels" at the Workshop.
26 March 2006
- Email from Grant Pierce (Golden Pride Children's Choir)
Subject: Friends of the Choir Update #35
Dear All
The choir arrive back in their capital city of Dar es Salaam
late last night, all well, carrying a few extra kilos in their suitcases, as
well as in their bodies.
The last day in Melbourne saw the children visit a cinema,
the first time for most of them. I took them to IMAX to watch Wild Safari in 3D.
They all thoroughly enjoyed it although a couple suffered from motion
sickness.
Tomorrow (Sunday) sees them return to their village and their
families after an amazing 3 weeks of discovery, learning and of course music.
They will have hours and hours of stories to relate to those in their village
who know little about travel and the developed world.
As they blend back into their familiar surroundings and return
to a world without power, running water, 3 guarenteed meals per day and
the luxuries many of us take for granted, they will watch a secondary school being
built in their village. That school is their key to a brighter future, not
just for the choir members but for their brothers, sisters, friends and their own
children in years to come, their key to break out of the poverty cycle.
To each of you on this mailing list, in the now many different
countries you all reside, there will be a brick in the secondary school for each
of you.
I hope all of you have enjoyed following the choir's journey
to Australia and feel a deep sense of satisfaction that it has culminated in
something very worthwhile.
God willing, Update #36 will be full of equally good news about
what may lay ahead for the choir.
On behalf of 42 children and their grateful relatives and neighbours,
thank you all for your generousity.
Kind regards as always
Grant
- Note: Harlan
Coach Tours , a member of the
Harlan Group that also manages Melbourne Lodge (home for the
choir during their stay in Melbourne), provided a coach to transport
the children to and from the IMAX theatre free of charge.
24 March 2006 - The new look
Melbourne Lodge website (www.melbournelodge.com.au)
launched.
Thanks to the creative efforts of Janara at Sapphyr
Web Designs.
23 March 2006
- Email from Grant Pierce (Golden Pride Children's Choir)
Subject: Friends of the Choir Update #34
Dear All
Since the last update the choir have done 3 performances in
Melbourne at the Festival 2006 for the Commonwealth Games. The
performances were very well attended and hugely popular, 2 of
the 3 ending in the now, somewhat familiar, standing ovation.
The first performance was just after Samson won the gold medal
for Tanzania in the Men's Marathon, so it was a special event.
The children have been extremely well looked after by the Melbourne
2006 organisers and Melbourne Lodge where they
are staying. The Tanzanian community put on a Tanzanian meal
for them on Saturday night which was just perfect, all plates
scraped clean.
The press coverage the choir has received in Australia has
been unbelievable,
certainly the best covered of all the performers. Whilst I dont
have the
facities to reproduce the articles here for you, some of the
headlines in the
major papers have been: Little Choir Sings About Big Issues,
Golden Voices Sing
Songs of Joy, Free Event You Just Can't Afford to Miss, Lunchtime
Musical
Safari, Choir To Make Hearts Soar, Singing Secures School, Golden
Voices From
The Village Heart of Africa, African Joy On Stage and Ticket
To Pride.
Today is their choir's last performance in Australia before
heading home
tomorrow evening. They will be having their photo taken on the
steps of
Flinders St Station, a Melbourne landmark, after the performance.
Standing
along side them will be Samson, proudly holding his Commonwealth
Games Gold
Medal.
Enjoy the remainder of the week.
Kind regards
Grant
Today is the choir's final performance in Australia
16 March 2006 - Harlan welcomes
The Golden Pride Children's Choir from Tanzania
who visit Melbourne as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural
Festival. These children stayed at Melbourne Lodge whilst in
Melbourne. For
more info.....
7 February 2006 - Harlan launches the Werribee
Park Tours website. This website promotes a unique
tour that Harlan Coach Tours has put together in close co-operation
with Parks Victoria, Shadowfax and the Zoo. You will be surprised
what Melbourne has to offer right on its doorstep. See.....
January 2006 - Harlan launches Ocean
Road Tours. A daily scheduled bus tour from Melbourne
to Victoria's famous Great Ocean Road. See.....
October 2005 - Harlan is pleased
to announce that it has taken over the lease of The Lodge on
Bell from Rydges Hotel and renamed it Melbourne Lodge.
Initially we used this facility for short-term student and school
camp accommodation. However in December management decided to
re-assign the use of this facility for short-term crisis accommodation
for women and their children. See.....
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