I come from a land down under...
etc. (song's been going through my head since we got here)
Ok, so since, as i mentioned, we're temporarily chasing our own visions of Australia, the blog's going to be slightly disjointed for a while. As things stand, Sammy and Laura are livin' it up in Perth, Sinead's raced on to Sydney, Melbourne & her loving family in New Zealand and I'm kicking it here in Cairns before rolling down the east coast to Brisbane & Sydney - where there will be work. (sigh)
So why not fill ye all in on what's gone on since Thailand?
So we finally left Koh Phangan, headed for Singapore'Death to Smugglers'Airport. We stayed the night in the departure lounge (it did, after all, win the coveted Golden Pillow Award on sleepinginairports.com) before catching the early flight to Perth & linking back up with Sam for a few days.
Laura & Sam took off up north for new years road trip. Alas, since Sinead and i had flights to catch, we couldn't go, but rang in the new years in style, swigging from a bottle of wine on a motorway overlooking fireworks over the Perth skyline.
Then myself and Sinead rolled on to Darwin. Where we had a great time, despite an incident involving a bike. (I rented one, went back to where i'd locked it - IT WAS GONE! I reported it to the police, the council & the hostel who rented it to me...before remembering i'd locked it in another part of town...)
We burned on to Alice Springs, hot as a hairdryer (read the post below, written in the depth of the oven-like heat.) Where we spent a pleasant day drinking cold beer, lounging in a pool, watching the sunset & not doing much else. (we had to prepare for the next day!!!)(and the tourist stuff in Alice Springs consists mainly of the flying doctors visitor centre, and that's about it)
A ONE DAY TRIP TO ULURU!!! (ayers rock!)
Five hours drive out of Alice springs, and five hours back, with some walking & looking at the rock, and a barbecue in between. Exellent day.
Then, a flight on to Cairns, home to the famous Cairns Historical Walk. (45 minutes of pure joy. 'This building was the first to use concrete in Cairns, and used to house a plumbing equipment shop. It was built in 1963') We had a few nice bottles of wine, swam in lagoons, ate free dinners and SNORKELLED THE GREAT BARRIER REEF! which was awesome!
Oh, and we met a nice couple who are doing much the same trip as us, only the otehr way around. So we had a lovely conversation trading tips about the various hemispheres.
Anyway, hope you are all well, sorry for the sporadic updates, will try to keep more regular from now on. (there's still some backlog to fill in)
Andy.
(one interesting point about the Time difference - i'm listening to Today FM at the moment, and expected to hear the usual sunday afternoon programming, instead i get Taxi driver nighttime music!)
Now - Pictures!
Sleeping in Singapore Airport
Coral bungalows on Koh Phangan- The swedish lads (Sebastian & Linus), the Galway girls (Sheila, Therese & Michelle) and ourselves.
Myself and Sinead and Uluru.
Ok, so since, as i mentioned, we're temporarily chasing our own visions of Australia, the blog's going to be slightly disjointed for a while. As things stand, Sammy and Laura are livin' it up in Perth, Sinead's raced on to Sydney, Melbourne & her loving family in New Zealand and I'm kicking it here in Cairns before rolling down the east coast to Brisbane & Sydney - where there will be work. (sigh)
So why not fill ye all in on what's gone on since Thailand?
So we finally left Koh Phangan, headed for Singapore'Death to Smugglers'Airport. We stayed the night in the departure lounge (it did, after all, win the coveted Golden Pillow Award on sleepinginairports.com) before catching the early flight to Perth & linking back up with Sam for a few days.
Laura & Sam took off up north for new years road trip. Alas, since Sinead and i had flights to catch, we couldn't go, but rang in the new years in style, swigging from a bottle of wine on a motorway overlooking fireworks over the Perth skyline.
Then myself and Sinead rolled on to Darwin. Where we had a great time, despite an incident involving a bike. (I rented one, went back to where i'd locked it - IT WAS GONE! I reported it to the police, the council & the hostel who rented it to me...before remembering i'd locked it in another part of town...)
We burned on to Alice Springs, hot as a hairdryer (read the post below, written in the depth of the oven-like heat.) Where we spent a pleasant day drinking cold beer, lounging in a pool, watching the sunset & not doing much else. (we had to prepare for the next day!!!)(and the tourist stuff in Alice Springs consists mainly of the flying doctors visitor centre, and that's about it)
A ONE DAY TRIP TO ULURU!!! (ayers rock!)
Five hours drive out of Alice springs, and five hours back, with some walking & looking at the rock, and a barbecue in between. Exellent day.
Then, a flight on to Cairns, home to the famous Cairns Historical Walk. (45 minutes of pure joy. 'This building was the first to use concrete in Cairns, and used to house a plumbing equipment shop. It was built in 1963') We had a few nice bottles of wine, swam in lagoons, ate free dinners and SNORKELLED THE GREAT BARRIER REEF! which was awesome!
Oh, and we met a nice couple who are doing much the same trip as us, only the otehr way around. So we had a lovely conversation trading tips about the various hemispheres.
Anyway, hope you are all well, sorry for the sporadic updates, will try to keep more regular from now on. (there's still some backlog to fill in)
Andy.
(one interesting point about the Time difference - i'm listening to Today FM at the moment, and expected to hear the usual sunday afternoon programming, instead i get Taxi driver nighttime music!)
Now - Pictures!
Sleeping in Singapore Airport
Coral bungalows on Koh Phangan- The swedish lads (Sebastian & Linus), the Galway girls (Sheila, Therese & Michelle) and ourselves.
Myself and Sinead and Uluru.
posted by Andy at 4:07 AM
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You're looking very trim Andy!
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