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We arrived in Darwin on the 11thNovember to stay at Nat’s Auntie Debs for a few weeks. First thing we noticed was the humidity. It was only about 5 in the morning but pretty stifling! We looked for work over the next few days, I was lucky enough to be able to go to work for Deb’s close friend doing painting and decorating, Nat applied online to many places but didn’t hear back unfortunately. I worked for a week and a half, and we used that money I earned to go to Katherine Gorge, known as Nitmiluk (which you can read more on further down this blog entry). For the rest of the stay in Darwin we wandered around and drove into the city, we didn’t find that much to do that interested us unfortunately, and ... read more

Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur: Unfortunately (yet quite sensibly) we had decided to cut our trip short. The original plan was to fly into Bangkok, spend 2 days roaming around integrating with the locals and then catch a sleeper train to Kuala Lumpur. Mother nature had other ideas, and decided to put a large part of Bangkok under water. We didn’t want to take the risk of getting out to Bangkok and then finding that where we were staying was in a state of crisis, so a few days before departing Heathrow, Natalie cancelled our reservation at the Bangkok hostel and got a flight out of Bangkok airport a few hours after we arrived. So, on the 1st November we flew out of Heathrow en route to Bangkok, via Mumbai as it worked out cheaper stopping off. ... read more