Thanks for everyones comments its nice to know that someone reads my rambellings! I leave Perth on Wednesday morning (6am) to catch a 4x4 bus through the centre of Australia to Alice Spring via Ulhuru (about 2000km - or about the same as London to Cassablanca). The tour goes through Kalgoorlie and then through teh Great Victoria desert. I'll be camping out in a 'swag' bag and staying in some baorigional communities along the way. Sounds pretty exciting. However its very unlikely that I will get phone reception or internet access until I arrive in Alice Springs on the 1st March. So I will probably not get to update the blog until then.
Today I sold the bike which has done me so well for the past month. It has gone onto Bryan (one half of the couple I'm staying with), his wife is contemplating buying a bike to get fit so he's decided that he should accompany her. Despite me trying to offer the bike and helmet for free as a thankyou gesture I found found $40 pushed under my door this morning. Its amazing how many people have been so kind to me while I've been here. Everyone has suggested that the people of Western Australia are much friendlier than those from the eastern states. I don't know how many people match the kind heartedness of the people i've meet over here - the Eastern states have alot to live up to! Maybe its because Perth is one of hte most isolated cities in the world that makes the population behave like its a small town rather than a city?!?
Oh well, more to come later. Before I leave on Wednesday, I have Claudias birthday party to attend, I'm visiting the Aquarium and I need to buy a rain coat as the weather forecast for Melbourne isn't quite so sunny as that for over here! I have also become addicted to the Stephanie Meyer Twilight saga. I've just finished the first two and am trying to find the second two in a second hand shop before the tour ( I suspect there will be long days of driving and I may need to read to occupy myself!) I was quite lucky and after buying the first one managed to swop it at a second hand shop for the second one, I'm not sur i will be so jammy the next time round.
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"Its amazing how many people have been so kind to me while I've been here"
--why needs no explanation :)
after having a week of sheer hard work sorting out problems caused deliberately by other people it was lovely to read this...love the pianist (still not managed to go out on my bike..!)
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