While Barry was checking emails and responding as well as updating the blog in Broome, John was taking photos of this Wicked Camper van, a company that has expanded its operations to many other parts of the world, not just Australia.
Darwin July 8th 2010 Thursday 8 July 2010
We have returned this evening from attending one of Darwin’s twice weekly attractions - the evening market at the Mindell Beach area of the city where John and I arrived in time to find a parking space, amongst the hundreds of cars that had congregated there, and get down to the beach to watch the sun set with hundreds of other people who had had the same idea.
It was a wo ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin » City of Darwin Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
At the beginning of 2008 two of us were discussing cars while John was reading his Classic Car magazine and read out an advertisement asking for entrants to take part in the re-run of the greatest and longest endurance rally of all time – the 1968 London to Sydney race, which was won by Andrew Cowan in a Hillman Hunter – now a classic car. We decided to enter.
The rally was due to start in November 2008 from London and finish in Sydney on the 10th December but it never did materialise – due to Australian quarantine issues – they refused to allow cars to proceed into Oz without a two day Â... full info