Melbourne, Australia, Australia I’ve spent the last few days here in Melbourne tying up some loose ends. It is so easy to live in a city and say “I’ll do that sometime”, and then run out of time before you actually do it. That realisation came to me a couple of days ago, and I’ve tried to squeeze in as much as possible in the last few days. Unfortunately, I’ve been sick for the last week, so it’s not made…
Melbourne, Australia, Australia I had a great day out today with my friend Carla. I met her at her house at about 10:30am and we hit the road. Our first destination was Brighton which is very popular for its beach boxes that are all painted in extremely bright colors. They are owned by really rich people who live in Brighton, and as far as we could see, they just keep their beach crap in them. The are completely non-essential, but…
Melbourne, Australia, Australia I had a fairly lazy start to the day today. I got up and checked out of the hostel by 8:30am and headed over to the airport. I returned the car and checked in for my flight by 9:05am. I was supposed to fly out at 11:05am, but since I was flying with Tiger, we didn’t actually take off until 1:30pm. The most annoying thing was that they finally came out with an announcement at 12pm saying…
Alice Springs, Australia, Australia Today marked the last early morning wake up call for this holiday. I was up at 6am to pack my bags and check out of the hostel before getting picked up for my scenic flight at 7am. I really lucked out with the flight because I only wanted to pay $190 for a flight over Uluru and Kata Tjuta. This flight didn’t have enough passengers so they offered to put me on another flight instead. Instead…
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, Australia Today started out with a 6am wakeup call, after a very good night of sleep. I was surprised at how quiet the 20 bed dorm room was compared to the night before, but I guess it totally depends on who is in it. I was stoked to go outside and actually see some stars through the clouds outside. It was the first time I’d seen a star in a few days, so this meant…
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, Australia I had a pretty miserable night of sleep considering I was in a room with almost 20 people in it. It seemed that there was always someone on their phone, or on their computer, or coming in and out of the door. It was a little ridiculous, especially how little respect people had for others in the room. Ah well, I guess that’s what travelling is all about. I got over to Uluru at…
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, Australia I woke up this morning hoping to see the makings of a nice sunrise, however, it was still overcast and raining. I decided that there was no point in making an early exit and stayed in bed for a bit longer than planned. I finally decided to get up and leave by about 9am. Angus and I said our goodbye’s and went our separate ways. The drive to Yulara (the town that Ayers Rock…
Kings Canyon, Australia, Australia I woke up this morning to see that the sky was still completely cloud covered, so I immediately went back to sleep. Unfortunately, Min and Gerard decided to leave at 6:30am and were pretty noisy packing up, so I was awake from that time anyway. I hung out in the room until about 10am hoping that the rain would go off, but it never did. I decided to head over to the canyon anyway and see…
Kings Canyon, Australia, Australia I was planning on getting an early start today, but I couldn’t be bothered getting out of bed so I finally hit the road at 8:45am. It was a two hour drive south to Erldunda where I filled up on gas, and then I headed west on Lasseter Highway for about an hour. I had envisioned there being more things to stop and see on the way, but there really was nothing at all, so I…
Alice Springs, Australia, Australia My trip to the Northern Territory started this morning with a 5am wakeup call to get the bus to the airport. I was flying with Tiger Airways, the worst low-budget airline ever, so of course I was delayed. At first it was just by an hour, and that ballooned to just over two hours without so much as an announcement. Nice. The good thing was that we weren’t cancelled like some other flights were, so we…