In Melbourne I had some chillout time and explored the city. I went on a guided tour of the Rod Laver arena, home to the Australian Open. I also visited the Old Melbourne Gaol, where Ned Kelly was hanged. Leaving Melbourne was a normal early start. My driver, Hoops, whom i had in the Blue Mountains, had to the rus through the city for the last pick up. There were only five of us on this tour, which was good. Means you get to talk to people. There were two Swiss Geman chicks and two Dutch Grannies of 73 and something [View Full Entry]

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Bore da. Hwyl. Hello. And welcome back me! Australia has been tough to blog. Often for days up the east coast nothing, and i mean nothing would happen, short of arriving at a town where the only possible past time, was to sit in the sun either on the beach or by the pool side. Of course i met some awesome people and they do deserve a mention. Elaine, Alex, Luke, Curtis and Clare. So I was in Adelaide last time i wrote. Now i'm in Sydney. In Adelaide I went on some runs, went t the museum and art gallery, [View Full Entry]

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Alice Springs airport consists of a short runway, two shacks, and thats it. Pretty cool. Especially after the big commericalism that i hated so much about the bloody east coast. All around there was desert, dusty, red, desert. I had one day to recover from two early morning bed times and two early morngin wake ups before having to get up at half four for my five am pick up, which was late. Not a good start. There were 13 of us on the bus, but only 9 were doing the six day tour, while the other 4 were doing a [View Full Entry]

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A few days ago i made the joureny from Agnes Water/Town of 1770, a fair few miles inland, passed the great dividing range into Kroombit cattle Station. We arrived at lunhc time and were greeted with steaks on the BBQ and heaps of salads and bread. After a good chow down, i got my long trousers on a saddled up. I was heading out on a goat muster. As a more experienced rider i was given the boss horse. A lovely chestnut beauty that did what it was told! We headed out into a rocky and hill paddock and started searching [View Full Entry]

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The east coast is a bit more disjointed than New Zealand. I can go days on end without doing much of note. Fraser Island, however, is one of the things to note. I signed up to do a 4X4 expedition on this spit of sand, just off the east coast of Oz. I would be out for three days and two nights camping and covering the best places the island. The day before we left we were put into a team, did the whole meet and greet thing and went to do our food shop. It was then i knew it [View Full Entry]

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So. I haven't written for a long time. Nearly two weeks??? But there is a fantastic reason for this, so want to be let into a massive secret? I have done bugger all! Well metaphorically speaking anyway. I have been doing things on a day to day basis but all in all, nothing that immensely interesting or exciting, except for a few days of absolute joy. So after doing the East Cape of Aotearoa, which was amazing and possible, dare I say one of the best parts of New Zealand, although that is unfair, maybe it should be left at that [View Full Entry]

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We got up early and piled on the mini bus and fell asleep again until the evil smells of Rotorua filled our noses. we jumped off had an energy drink and then met our new driver. We were told he was called sexy rex because he was on the cover of a 1996 edition of Mens Health. This, my friends was a lie. He was not! He was however an ex rally driver. And boy did we know it! The next four days he threw us around in a minibus as if it was a subaru, supercharge, v8! We zipped through [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Taupo and it was baking. Like ridiculously hot! like the kinda heat where you go, "you know what, its hot!". It seemed to me like a rather spiffing idea to go fishing. Taupo, a lake which could fit Singapore in it with room to spare and boasts a trout population in excess of 1,000,000, thats a million! I rented a rod, got a license and hit the river. I fished my way down to the river until i got to the lake and fished from a pier for a time but then lost my last spinner. Incidentally if [View Full Entry]

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Back in Q'Town we hit the bars, lightl, for Claires 25th birthday. Happy Birthday Claire. We tried to go to be at 11 but i still found myself out partying until 3am having to be up at 7. We called it a night there and after a short stint in the play park we were in bed. The next morning I rose and showered and breakfasted before waking Rob up. One of our room mates hadn't returned yet, so must have got lucky, and the other one, a female, was sleeping naked. It disturbed me slightly...! We were outside and waiting [View Full Entry]

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I could bore you with the nitty gritty details of waking up, having breakfast, jumping on the bus, heading to Picton, having lunch, sailing through one of the most beautiful coastal regions ever, arriving in Wellington, playing some pool and then going to the welsh bar. But i'll save you that. Its a given. We met Anton, at just after 7pm in none other than the welsh bar. We got him a pint in, quickly caught up, chugged the beer then grabber our gear to head to his place. He ran round the shop while we chilled out, getting ingredients for [View Full Entry]

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