10/02/12 Alice springs, weird, weird and weird. We arrived and got on the airport shuttle bus. The driver asked us where we were from. We told him England and he said, in extremely strong Ozzie accent “so, you’ve cam to see ya facking convict cousins then have ya?” Charming, but actually despite the coarseness he was a really nice guy and gave us a free short sightseeing tour on the way in pointing out where everything…or in Alice Spring’s case nothing really….was. We were dropped off at our lovely hostel called Alice Springs secret backpackers before heading off to get some food. Alice Springs has a very strange and slightly scary atmosphere. There are a lot of aboringals who sleep, sit, drink, fight with each other and mutter to themselves everywhere also it has white ozzies
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