He He, some lucky person is leaving the UK on July 11th to live in Sydney for 4 months and travel Aus and New Zealand for the next two! Question is what do I need to see when I am out there, I am trying to find out everything there is to go at, including all the petrolhead stuff! So what should I see, what is unmissable in Australia? My basic route at the moment is: London to Sydney, then travelling from November to January: Sydney to Cairns, Cairns to Perth, Perth to Christchurch, Christchurch to Auckland, Auckland to Sydney, Sydney to London! Fire away folks
6 months, how about life or better still firing squad, and to think we gave them a billion $... just to grow more drugs
6 months in Australia ?? Do what I did, meet an Aussie girl and don't bother going Back. That way you don't have to put up with british weather; 9 months of rain and 2 months of sleat with 1 month of gale force winds. Better still, you won't need to listen to english radio or Top of the Pops again !!
And put up with Aussies cussing you every day of you life for being a soap-dodging, back-packing scum bag? Aus is a great place, but there really is too many English people there.
Can you suggest a better one? I have started to err towards a different route taking in Sydney, Cairns then straight out to NZ and spend most of my travelling time there. What do you guys think??
plently of desperate chicks in Melbourne, seems nearly all the guys there are of a different persuasion...
Try and get to the North-West. Broome, bungles and the kimberleys, you'll love it. Exmouth also worth a visit. Real Oz.
Ben, Aussie lesson number one. Root in Aussie doesnt only mean "a selected course to a destination" - it also means ride/beyotch/sheila/lady. Ie.. Aussie 1 "Mate, I'm driving from Melb to Sydney mext week...." Aussie 2 " oh yeah, what root/route are you taking...." Aussie 1 "dunno mate, I'd best take the wife..."
we like it when you bring ya girlfriends out here, that way we get to show them the best roots/routes oh, and anyone who is going from Melb to Sydney would never take their "wife", they are all gay so they would be taking their "partner" Up here in Qld we are always on the lookout for a new route/root
sounds like pork barrelling to me that'd be the entire population of Adelaide in that picture right ?? which one is ewe ??
Well if it was me I'd just install myself in the Elephant Bar in the Royal at Five Ways for the duration. Let Australia come to you. Oh, and I had the good sense to bring my own with me from LA when we moved down there although I did get the "cut lunch to a smorgasbord" comment a time or two from my mates. Dunno what you like but there is some fantastic stuff out in NW NSW/SW Queensland if you're adventurous - you can use my Jeep if you like. Mate of mine in Chatswood is looking after it at the moment and it was a nice car when it was new but it should get you there and back. Bloody fantastic country - glad they gave me citizenship before I buggered off back to America for the $$$. We'll be back. Cheers Kevin
my olds have a meat factory out there... 300kms north of Broke'n'Ill. place is the very definition of 'ghost town', something like 3000 people scattered through the area during goldrush days, now it's just my family and all the ring-ins they hire to shoot roos for them. i've werked on half the stations out there (NW NSW/SW QLD) in one way or another, back in the days when i was a jackaroo/muleser/musterer/shooter/builder/concreter/knifesman/stunt-dirt-bike-fool/farmer's-daughter-corrupter/dart-champion... or at least gone and poached their yabbies.
Spot have a name? I prolly been there...we spent a week one night in the pub at Thargomindah QLD - bloke we met there rang us six months later wondering if we were still coming up to the races. Bloody good stuff - walking in to a pub and ordering two pots of XXXX in my American accent like I'd been doing it my whole life will make you friends in a hurry. Mind you it was the end of shearing season and half the blokes in the pub had blue dye all over their heads... good times indeed. Been down your way as well - we did the Flinders Ranges one Easter although I think everyone in Adelaide had the same idea...cannot quite remember the year but the locusts were a bloody mess - found they would bounce off if I kept the Jeep under 60kms... Cheers Kevin
