Rick on August 26th, 2008

It is just over 1300km from Brisbane to Townsville, and much of that stretch has been described as ‘famously uninteresting’ in at least one guide book we have with us. So we were lucky that we travelled in a shit-heap of a van which made our journey far more remarkable! The van had been ‘affectionately’ [...]

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Rick on December 23rd, 2007

Australia is an Island. It is a country. It has a single currency; and a single language is spoken across nearly all of the land – so it is not unlike most countries in those respects. But Australia is also a continent all on its own. It’s vastness is incomparable in my admittedly limited experience, [...]

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