The last time that I wrote to you I was just about to leave Australia after 5 months of touring around the mainland. It had been good but I was looking forward to a change in culture and for a rest ! On the agenda were a little over 5 weeks on some of the […]
“Shall I be a purist or not ?” That was the question that I put to myself when working out how to get from Cairns to Alice Springs. I’ve travelled around the rest of mainland Australia by land so should I be a purist and travel the last part overland or fly ? Flying was […]
Just after the new year, when it became clear that the world was still reasonably intact and that the expected demise of everything that we take for granted didn’t quite happen, I figured that it was safe to board a Greyhound bus and head up to Sydney to begin a great loop that would take […]
Ok, so we’re on this train….. The Nullarbor Plain I woke up at 4:30am to see the dawn (don’t worry – it wasn’t intentional) and the view from the window was spectacular simply because there was absolutely nothing to see – just mile upon mile of flat barren countryside – the Nullarbor Plain ! When […]
I last left you in sunny Perth where we were contemplating our next step: a tour of the South West. With Christmas and New Year fast approaching time was short, and so we hired a car together and headed south. South by Southwest This was the home video that Hitchcock made before his more famous […]