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September 1st 2006

Published: November 13th 2006

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Soniamp

Southbank, Melbourne

Veiw from work

Thought I would try and give you some idea what I have been up to since I arrived Australia now I am going to be in one place more than a couple of days and actually have internet access.

Melbourne was an amazing city but didn’t see much apart from the inside of the office and restaurant I was working in (my own fault for having too much fun in New Zealand and spending all my money). I had a pretty nice view from the reastaurant I worked at and we landed ourselves a nice pad so wasn't too bad. And the neighbours night made all the hard work seem worth while!

From there it was over to Adelaide to start the big journey through the outback. Even though you know how big Australia is it wasn’t until we started driving from one end of the country to the other that I actually believed it.

Saw some pretty amazing things on the way to the red centre, think Coper Pedy has to be the most bizarre, an underground town where people live in caves dug into the hills. Then obviously it was the attraction we had all been

Apartment, melbourne

Sunset from the balcony

waiting for, the big rock. Wasn’t a let down as I thought it might be and to be honest was pretty impressive as far as rocks go, particularly watching sunset and sunrise. Kings Canyon was next and was just as impressive if not more so.

We had a break half way up in Alice Springs, and although not a town I would rave about it was a much needed break from sleeping under the stars and getting up at 5am every morning. A couple of good nights out and lazy days later we were off again, destination Darwin.

Not as much to see as there was from Adelaide to Alice Springs but the Devils Marbles were pretty cool but slight rock overload by this point.

We arrived to Darwin with a nasty yet eventually great surprise. We hadn’t been booked into the hostel and it was full. After sleepless nights and extremely early mornings it seemed like the end of the world but it just so happened that they had a deluxe part to the hostel and they had a spare room so it felt like all our Christmases has come at once. And there the fun