Destination: Australia

Le Estimatedo Itineraryo de Pistachio Tumbleweedo

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By pistachio_tumbleweed | Views [654] | Comments [4]

Date Place Miriwinni 12 Mar 07 Cairns 12 Mar 07 Sydney 12 Mar 07 Lima , Peru 13 Mar 07 Ecuador (start tour) ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Countdown...

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By pistachio_tumbleweed | Views [431]

Not long now before I tumble out of my little Pistachio shell for some some serious toe wiggling in South America...  South America, prepare to be Merrynated!!!

Tags: The Planning Phase

Gallery: North Queensland

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By pistachio_tumbleweed | Photo Gallery

And We're Off

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [927]

Our time in Australia has come to an end... we’re leaving with lots of great memories and experiences from our first two months on the road, and starting the journey on our Round the World ticket with a flight from Perth to Darwin, to Mumbai, India.... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Life in Melbourne

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By lissaur | Photo Gallery

Still in Melbourne

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | By lissaur | Views [558]

Well it's one week until we leave Melbourne and fly to Bangkok, wooohoooo! I figured it was a good idea to start an online journal, so will see how it goes.  Am really enjoying Melbourne at the momento, am so going to miss this city.  We are semi prepared ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Cooking in 48 degrees

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [915]

This weather is brutal.  Perth, today, 48 degrees celsius.  Picture yourself in a clothes dryer on high heat... it was still brutal when we walked out for dinner at 8:30 pm!!!

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Traffic crazy Sydney

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [653]

Everywhere you look here there are cars, taxis, buses and general traffic, I can't quite get used to having to look before crossing the road, certainly not a pre-requistite in Fairlie! The traffic is just crazy, bus after bus filled with people listening ... Read more >

Tags: People

A walk in the park

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [681]

I've been in the botanic gardens today, I must have walked 50k's, round and round the penninsula. The gardens were lovely, if a bit noisy, hundreds of fruit bats living in the trees, I thought they'd be sleeping seems how it was daylight but obviously ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Alice Springs

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | By kezza30 | Views [798]

What a place!! It was a culture shock to see how Aborigional people are living in a Town in Australia. Some of them are like animals fighting amongst their different tribes. They just sit on the grassy verges around the town in their groups. Some try ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Adelaide to Alice 22nd March - 3rd March

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | By kezza30 | Views [1082] | Comments [1]

What an experience this trip was. There were millions of flies, it was always in the 40's and luckily for us two girls got the wrong dates and missed the tour so we were down to 8 of us. It was bliss as the troopy was quite cramped inside and I couldnt ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Musings on Australia

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [624]

I was just thinking, when I got here, it actually felt like I was in a foreign country, I know I AM in a foreign country but still... Like when I got to New Zealand I automatically felt at home, here it feels like somewhere quite different, maybe its ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

The big chill part 1

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [999] | Comments [2]

Sunday 11th June 2006 Did normal farm stuff, we'd just dried off all but 50 of the cows so milking only taking about an hour and a half once a day, the rest of time moving breaks, and feeding out, which basically involved me sitting in the tractor! ... Read more >

Tags: Snow

I've arrived

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [751]

I landed on 'Stralian soil last night, at around 10pm New Zealand time, and my immediate reaction? Take me back to Christchurch, quick sharp! I walked out of the airport into a taxi occupied by a gentleman of Asian extraction, who appeared to have no ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Taxes

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [799]

We’re adding this bit into the blog, just to assure you that our trip is not just all play and no work...   we have the fun challenge now of digging through records that we don’t have full access to, in order to file our taxes.   Luckily being overseas ... Read more >

Tags: Work