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 […]
Home I didn’t expect Australia to feel so much like home. The landscape and the wildlife was so different from anything I had seen, completely uniquely its own. It was relentlessly hot, and ridiculously large, and sparsely populated. And yet, the people were surprisingly friendly, and the atmosphere was laid back and easy to exist
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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
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 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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The furthest South… As we headed out of Adelaide we began to see a different Australia on the quieter roads. We were definitely in the South now. We stopped for a break in a town called ‘Meningie’ and saw our first pelicans. Six of the hugest and weirdest looking birds I had ever seen, doing
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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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‘Are we there yet?’ Our walk from the hostel to the restaurant that first night was in an entirely new world, but I was struggling to notice it. Rosa and Theo were both trying to help me shake off the sack I was carrying around with me – we had made it to Australia, we
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