Dili to Medan In one of our (many) family meetings in the last few days before we left Ellie’s we had tried to do some broad brush stroke planning of the journey home. Was it possible to shave a month off the time it took us to get here, without the journey killing us…? After […]
550 million years, and counting…. Theo’s blog On a drive through Gosford, New South Wales, towards the end of our stay, I noticed I was no longer noticing Australia. I’d gotten used to the utes and double-trailered trucks driving at sober speeds past bungalows and verandahs and retail parks where well-fed sunscreened people in shorts
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Where have all the parrots gone? The next door neighbours pig is squealing, the five o’clock call to prayer has woken up everyone in down town Dili, including our host Tracey, the British Honorary Consul, and her menagerie of cats who think it’s definitely time to be fed…but there are no parrots, not a single
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Uluru My last eight hours on a bus in Australia – I have both a fondness and a mild dread of Greyhound buses now. They are hard on my back and each one has been a seriously loo-oong journey. That said, apart from one slightly suicidal driver on the journey from Melbourne to Sydney back
Deadly (…& Cuddly) Oz Australia’s reputation is that ‘danger is everywhere’, and in truth I expected to see something deadly every single day …and if it wasn’t terrifying, then we’d be going ‘awww it’s so cute’. I came to Oz with a bingo card full of animals I wanted to see – kangaroos, koalas, duck
What we did next… Our first gig at the Narara Community Centre went so much better than I could have hoped. John Seed and River (his son) sang a couple of funny songs and then we were on. Everything starts early in Australia so it was only 7.20 when we started playing. We did a
The House Sit We arrived back at my sister’s house after our week away in the Blue Mountains, tired, but happy… two delighted dogs greeted us at the door, and after we unpacked, we headed out for our regular walk around the park, in a place that now felt like home. When we got back
The Wedding The clouds came to meet us as we drove the last ten miles up into the Blue Mountains, the mist softening the outline of the trees and the land around us. We went as quiet as the stillness we could feel, driving more slowly now as we made our way down the lanes
The First Week in Oz At the beginning, each day was an adventure. Everything was new – it was ‘pinch me’ exciting being in AUSTRALIA with my FAMILY – and ‘punch me’- what the hell has happened with all the media interest in our journey? I remember floating a little that first afternoon – was
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Cause and Effect – Theo’s blog Back in 2023, once me and Shannon had realised the impact flying has on nature and climate and decided we never wanted to fly again, I’d assumed that trips by train into Europe were the most I was likely to see of the big old world. I’d fully digested
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