June 10, 2004
Sydney life
We have been in Sydney for about a month, staying with Jon's cousin Ness and Michael, seeing all the Aussie Sygraves (Jon's family), and working. Jon has been digging holes again and I have been working for the Department of...Read this update
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April 23, 2004
Sausage suprise
Jon and I are nearing 30 and should be responsible adults by now. You’d think we would be capable of conducting a babysitting evening in a mature and responsible manner, but when my sister and her family came out to...Read this update
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April 13, 2004
The Nullarbour
At 135k with no bends, the Nallarbour plain is the longest stretch of road in Australia and is the most sensible way to get from West to East. We saw a lot of bugs, a fair amount of road trains,...Read this update
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April 10, 2004
Jon the provider
Battling against the rain, we managed to make it to the last point on our West Australian tour, Cape Le Grand National Park. It is 50 K to the East of Esperance and had been recommended to us by the...Read this update
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April 09, 2004
Getting high...
We have been plagued by the Redback tour bus everywhere we’ve been, even to the top of the 60 ft bi-centennial tree, and we began to think that the only way to get away from them was to climb a...Read this update
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April 07, 2004
Tall Trees
The South West coast of Australia is rather like an English style countryside awash with a sea of trees. We drove for many days through tunnels of towering Karri trees stopping off from time to time to have a stroll...Read this update
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April 04, 2004
Surf’s up!
We finally left 1201 after 4 months of making ourselves at home. Tom and Steve were very kind to us and we are indebted to them for making us feel like one of the family. I am, however, very glad...Read this update
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March 21, 2004
Only fools and horses
Yesterday, courtesy of Steve's (1201 hostel owner) comp tickets, Friday night became race night. Armed with more money than sense (which thankfully didn't amount to much) we went off to the Perth Trotts....Read this update
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March 16, 2004
Just to prove we are actually in Oz...
...and not just hiding somewhere in a London pub making up tall stories....Read this update
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March 04, 2004
Ignorance is bliss OR whoops I did it again
I was in the small space of a caravan today and I heard a buzzing sound. I looked up to see a colourful bug flying around the window looking a bit dozy. I had seen many of these things dead...Read this update
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March 02, 2004
I've always been a late starter...
..So why change the habit of a lifetime. I am far too lazy to update all the stuff that I got up to in SE Asia, so I won't bother. Suffice to say I had such an amazing time that...Read this update
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