Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 212

Apologies for the tardiness of my latest blog, but have been soo busy hobbling round on crutches and being generally disabled, that it has taken a considerable amount of time out of my life!! I have had to undergo several sessions of physio, which has now, thankfully, resulted in me being able to walk normally (or march, as some of you may wish to comment!!), but nevertheless, I am without sticks. It is an immense relief. Still need some physio but can now actually do more stuff that I want to do, rather than having to do. Christmas was lovely but involved far too much food. The chinese really know how to make a buffet!! I'm sorry to say that the few things I wanted to do in Hk, I was unable to do...ie walk up ... read more

Hi all, we have been out of range for about 6 days and have seen alot. We passed through Esperance quickly, very busy there. We travelled out toCape Arid National Park and had a very nice private little camping spot. Out came the Solar Shower and the army rations of red wine. Stayed here 2 days. hey every one it's clancy At Cape Arid mum made us go on a big walk it was so hot. Mum got so sun burnt on her legs they were really red. The day after that we weent on a four wheel drive track made of sand, rocks, mud and corrugations. 2 hours and we only went 50 km Crossing the nullabor was so boring it took 7 hours to get to the first camping groung called cocklebiddy. Next day ... read more

After 8 weeks of travelling we reached our 'half way' point! Due to visa conditions we had to pop into Australia so that we could 'activate' our visa so we had a little 10 day break planned which was very nice. Over the 8 weeks we have had brilliant fun and met loads of people that we have travelled, eaten and drunk with which has made it really enjoyable. Being in Adelaide for 10 days was nice though as we had a nice big comfy bed for the whole time and the comfort of knowing we could eat pretty much whatever we want without having to face rice or noodles!!! We stayed with Niks mum and step dad, and Niks brother and his friend were there so we had a blast whilst we were there. We ... read more

Well as you can imagine we were well hung over, but we hit the road early to headed towards the Great Ocean road. We had been looking forward to this day for ages. We drove foe about 3 hours before ariving at the Tweleve Aposoles, we parked up the car and dragged our butts under a tunnel to gain a better view. It was swamped with flies all they wanted to do was to fly into my ears, drove me mad, we did not stay for long. We stopped at the shop and stocked up on liquid refreshments, and hit the road this part was quite enjoyable as the drive was mostly along the caost. We did not even bother to stop in Victoria, we just kept driving got our heads down in a cheep on ... read more

Christmas Eve After a night at Annies Place, (most of it spent on the internet catching up with family) we headed for "Wicked Campers", to pick up our camper van. This would be our mode of transport and home for the next 5 weeks. Over the last few weeks we had been debating what we would end up with. I was hoping for something a bit rock-n-roll and Skim wanted the bonking pigs, after she'd seen it in one of the blogs. But what did we get..... Harry (bleeding) Potter Well I was gob smacked to say the least and Skim fell about laughing..... How the hell am I going to hold my head up high driving this thing? We had no option but to drive it away. With head between my knees, I drove away......... ... read more