Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road - Australia January 2008 In what I consider a feat of endurance we arrived in Melbourne at 6.30am on a Monday morning after sitting on a bus for the past fifteen hours on a 900km road trip down from Sydney. Logically this is a great money saver as you …
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Sydney & Katoomba - Australia January 2008 Never, ever, ever, ever, ever travel with excess baggage! This is especially so when travelling in a country where you can get everything you could possibly need but this being my first time I was yet to discover the joys of travelling light. Standing outside a hotel in …
Perth to Esperance - Western Australia October 2007 As far as nights out go this had been a pretty good, albeit a casual one as we parked up on bar stalls downing pre-mixed cans of Jack and coke and flirting away with the blond bar tender in our usual boyish ways. Unfortunately it had come …
Sossusvlei to Cape Town - Namibia to South Africa June 2008 Namibia is vast, an impression I got at Spitzkoppe, the same impression I got while admiring the view under a parachute, and the same impression I got when we arrived at our “almost bush camp”, the first night after leaving Swakopmund. I say it …
Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Both surprisingly and unsurprisingly I awoke relatively late in the morning. Unsurprisingly because I was super comfortable and I can sleep better than most hibernating bears yet, surprisingly because in a few hours’ time I was scheduled to jump out of a plane. I had done a skydive five years …
