Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=314874] | 2008-08-22 08:58:38
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Hi! This is me and my wife, Claire. We're just(May 2006)in the process of renting out our house in Bedford UK, and setting off travelling for a bit. Yesterday we jacked both our jobs in (Claire's a Nurse, I'm a Train Driver)and hope to be away by the end of June. There's gotta be more to life than working, and we hope to be away off and on for maybe 4-5 years. The only concrete plan we have is that we have a flat booked in Goa for 6 months from the 1st November. We'll probably spend a few weeks in Ghana first, at a leprosy rehabilitation centre that her mum's friend runs. As soon as we leave work, our first stop is a bit nearer, a caravan in Snowdonia, Wales for a month. I need a bit of rehab myself to get over being stuck in a train cab for 6 years, and Claire's still recovering from a broken neck three years ago, so we both need to get a bit (ok, a lot) fitter. 4 weeks of walking and maybe a bit of climbing should help. Oh, and we're staying in the grounds of a pub, so now I've got no more random drink and drugs tests I'm sure we'll be getting to know the regulars there...
Anyone who wants to keep in touch with us can either do so through this site, or through our hotmail accounts: claire.hewitt@hotmail.co.uk and terry-hewitt@hotmail.co.uk (notice the dot in Claire's, dash in Terry's)
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by Claire-and-Tel, order by Date newest first.By Claire and Tel
August 22nd 2008
August 22nd 2008
Looking for Sunshine!
Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Lakes Entrance
Wow! Seven Weeks since our last Blog!! Ooops! Sorry, time flies eh?! So anyway, what have we been up to, apart from dodging the rain and trying to keep warm?! We did, as planned in the last Blog, make it up to the Murray River to a lovely spot called Bourkes Bend (?!) but being right on the river it was freezing, we managed a couple of nights and gave up on the third morning when we found that the condensation on the inside of the windows had frozen! Don't let anyone tell you that the weather in Oz is always [View Full Entry]
And so, sadly we left Linda in Port Augusta and headed off for Iron Knob once again. We managed to catch up with Judy but the other people that we had met including PJ and Michelle were off visiting people around Oz. Still we spent the afternoon with Judy and her two crazy dogs and then headed back to Port Augusta for dinner and the night. The following morning we set off for Broken Hill, a silver mining town just over the boarder into New South Wales. (Our 5th State!) Broken Hill was the setting for some of the film Pricilla [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 27 Photo(s) | 1 Video(s) | [diary=287902] | 2008-06-29 11:16:19
Probably one of the weirdest places we've ever been to is Coober Pedy, roughly half way between Alice Springs and Adelaide. For about 40km each side of the town you drive through a surreal apocalyptic landscape of white conical mullock heaps and old machinery, signs warning of the presence of thousands of mine shafts, each dug in the hope of finding opals. Coober Pedy itself is a small, dusty town with a population of about 2,000. Previously it boasted over 40 different nationalities although this is down to about 20 or so now that many people have left to try mineral [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 35 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=284006] | 2008-06-06 08:36:15
By Claire and Tel
May 29th 2008
May 29th 2008
Alice, Aliens and a Rock
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru
Arriving back into Darwin after our jolly in Bali, we eventually managed to convince the immigration officer that despite her intuition we really aren’t illegally working our way around Oz (and we’re really not!) and finally stamped in for another six months were reunited with Tilly, our van. Obviously upset that we’d abandoned her for a week, she’d decided to leak clutch and brake fluid everywhere. We managed to limp round to the caravan park we’d previously stayed in which was still locked up for the night, and so ended up sleeping on the side of the road for a [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 42 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=281398] | 2008-05-31 00:29:14
One of the quirks of the Australian immigration service is that if you want to stay longer than your initial visa, they want you to spend some of your money in a different country for a while rather than just letting you pay a fee to them. Seems a bit stupid to us but that’s how we ended up in Bali for a week. We’ve always had an image of Bali as a sort of Benidorm for Aussies, cheap beer and t-shirts, and its never really been on our list of must-see destinations. It is however the easiest place to get [View Full Entry]
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By Claire and Tel
April 28th 2008
April 28th 2008
The Top End
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin » City of Darwin
So we last left you in Broome shortly after arriving there......Well Broome it's self didn't seem to have too much to offer, lots of shops selling pearls, and a huge beach (Cable beach)which you couldn't swim in cause of the 'stingers'! We did spend an evening on the beach to watch the sunset, as did everyone else staying in Broome, the beach was fairly packed with everyone sitting around in their deckchairs drinking wine. (nice enough work if you can get it!) So in an "if you can't beat 'em join 'em moment" we settled down alongside! Cable beach apparently has [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 39 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=270739] | 2008-05-01 06:48:17
Well we survived the Cyclone....well actually it never actually arrived! Just rained cats and dogs for 3 days! So Coral bay being a bit of a wash out so to speak, we decided as soon as the road was reopened to head on up to Exmouth and the Ningaloo reef. We read about Exmouth before we were even in Australia as it is one of the few places in the world where Whale Sharks go past close to the coast and we had heard you could do a trip to swim with them. Whale sharks are the world’s biggest "fish"; they [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=262223] | 2008-04-11 07:08:44
By Claire and Tel
March 25th 2008
March 25th 2008
Onwards and Northwards
Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Carnarvan
At the end of the last blog we said our final farewells to Pete and Nirbeeja and after travelling with them for nearly four weeks finally went our seperate ways. That was in Busselton, home to the longest wooden jetty in Western Australia. Or was it in the southern hemisphere? Or in the universe? We've been to so many places with the longest wooden jetty that we've lost track. Suffice to say, no tourist destination in WA is complete without a rickety wooden jetty, slightly fire damaged, to charge people to walk along. We’d met up with a couple in Esperance, [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 25 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=259530] | 2008-03-27 04:12:36
By Claire and Tel
March 5th 2008
March 5th 2008
Giant Trees and Swear Words!
Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Bunbury » Bunbury
Hello People!! Here we are again, actually not far from where we last left you. It would seem we are only about 130km from where we did the last blog two weeks ago! In fact we have slowed down considerably from the first weeks of our trip. Firstly we had actually planned to treck fairly fast as far as Adelaide, partly as we had done this route before, but also because it is not far from Melbourne and easy to do on a short trip. Anyway then we hit the Nullabor and really there is not too much to stop for [View Full Entry]
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By Claire and Tel
February 21st 2008
February 21st 2008
Nearly 6000km!
Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Pemberton
Well after Cape Le Grand we were a little worried that moving on would be a disappointment. Being unable to take Tilly into Stokes inlet due to the rough road we decided to head for Waychinicup National Park, about 550km further west. Having been introduced to National Park camping I think we are in danger of becoming addicted, the sites are all lovely, some have loos and showers but even the ones that don’t are in such idyllic settings it doesn’t matter! AND they are cheep, about $12 a night for the 2 of us, less than a fiver! We’d had [View Full Entry]
Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 60 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=248441] | 2008-02-21 03:25:33