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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [2048]
I'm pretty close to doing this bike ride in the nude. Other than loving the birthday suit look, it would make more sense the way the weather is. Getting wet is one thing, as a bike ride in Broome was always hot enough to ensure you would end up wetter ... Read more >
Tags: misadventure, relaxing, riding, weather
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 | By happytraveller | Views [412] | Comments [2]
Well we are not spending much time at our hotel, which is probably a good thing....the mattress is like concrete and I'm pretty sure I have become food for bedbugs, they seem to find me tasty, but not Hayley so much. The wedding preparations are in full ... Read more >
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [1378]
I am pretty sure I was woken at 1:45am
by the sound of rain hitting my roof; hard. Hence, $38 had not
transformed my tent into the Millennium Falcon. I had to rise early
for once to get the first ferry across to Yamba, ... Read more >
Tags: cycling, friends, on the road, people, weather
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By happytraveller | Views [597] | Comments [3]
We enjoyed our short stay in Saigon, forgot just how crazy the traffic is there! Its hard to remember to walk casually across the road with a thousand motorbikes, cars, trucks and buses coming at you from all directions. The bikes move around you, but ... Read more >
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [2504]
The best thing to do after a riding
ordeal like I had just experienced, is to not go anywhere near a bike
for awhile. It hurt in too many places just thinking about it. My
bike was left on the roof of the hotel and did ... Read more >
Tags: cycling, on the road, people, rip-offs
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [1192] | Comments [2]
Emergency procedures were instantly put
into play as the evening was turning into more of a farce than what
the day had been. Food calms me like valium so I pulled out my unused
Jet-boil stove system. The tap water was ... Read more >
Tags: camping, hills, misadventure, riding
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [1178]
So I just got off the phone to the good folk at the Guinness Book of Records and they confirmed that I am in the running for a few categories in the next edition. 'Worst decision ever made', 'Most complete and utter reversal of fortunes', 'Most profanities ... Read more >
Tags: hills, misadventure, people, riding
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 | By 2crossers | Views [542] | Comments [3]
Well here we are in lovely sunny Perth with beautiful and amazing daughter and wonderful son in law and cute surfer dude doggy. We had a great trip getting here [ told you we wouldn't be on line much }LOL we flew from London UK and had some time ... Read more >
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [2303] | Comments [2]
If luck does come in strokes, this one
was particularly well lubricated. I could not have imagined a better
start to the trip, except perhaps for it coming at the start of the
day, rather than the end. While not being epic ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, bicycle, people
Wed, 7 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [1010]
There is a first time for everything, and while actually catching the flights I originally intended to is not the first time, it does fall into the 'minor miracle' category. I did do everything within my power to fall asleep, show up on the wrong day, ... Read more >
Tags: partying, preparation, training
Sun, 4 Dec 2011 | By graham-loes-fitton | Views [768]
We have travelled quite a bit since now, some 1400 km. Since
Marlo we have spend the night in a place called Tura beach, to move on the next
day to Dalmeny, where we stayed two days to do the laundry and have a shower.
As there was a bit of surf for ... Read more >
Sat, 3 Dec 2011 | By nooltn | Views [499]
So after leaving Broome we made some long drives down the coast. We Passed eighty mile beach driving down to Port Headland to restock our food and water supplies before heading away from the coast to stop through Karijini national park. We stop ... Read more >
Thu, 1 Dec 2011 | By walkaboutthekimberleys | Views [702]
After a four year Bachelor of Arts Degree plus an Honours degree in Modern History, my time as a student has finally reached its conclusion. No more tutorials, no more lectures and sadly no more 10am sleep-ins. The inevitable “so what are you ... Read more >
Tags: articles, cruise, documentary, expedition, experience, new zealand, sub antarctic
Thu, 1 Dec 2011 | By graham-loes-fitton | Views [741]
We have been touring around a bit for two days now as there
was no surf to be found around Melbourne and we had to start making some
distance. We stopped yesterday at ninety mile beach, at a free campsite for the
first time and are happily surprised ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 | By connectlocally | Views [5354]
There is an ongoing debate about whether this famous dessert originated in Australia or New Zealand, but as an Aussie I say it’s ours! Pavlova is a delicious meringue-based dessert that is believed to be named after the Russian ballet dancer Anna ... Read more >
Tags: australia, food, travel. pavlova
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