Oh it's a hard life working on the spuds. All the hard work paid off though and we are now officially tattie experts! After the fiasco of our last blog you'll be pleased to hear that this job went pretty well. We were met off the bus as promised, shown the field (paddock in spud farmer terms), where we'd be working, taken for food shopping and then driven to the caravan that'd we'd be calling home for the next while. In normal circumstances I would have prob...

Be warned this blog is all about hard times in Ozzie land! Our trip back the way to South Australia started out well, our overnight bus was luxury compared to the bus journeys we'd taken in Asia so we arrived in Adelaide at 6am raring to go and get started on some grape working! Jackie, the women- actually calling her a women is giving her a compliment, we'll describe her as the dirty, smelly, dyke - that we were going to be working for had said she would pick...

So we’re now into South Australia, definitely the most country folks like state in Oz! Our little van ended up visiting SA twice, first after finishing the Nullarbor then taking the same road back down after seeing Ayers Rock in Northern Territory. We stopped in Port Augusta after the Nullarbor, woo hoo civilisation!! People, normal shops and even had phone signal!! We went and got some food supplies in, our kitchen was looking a little bit bare! Now ba...

We crossed the Nullarbor, all 2700km of it, pretty much the same distance it would be to travel from London to Moscow! One of the worlds longest stretches of straight road, the so called 90 mile straight is part of the Nullarbor, full of tree’s & signs decorated with undies, shoes & tv’s!! This is where we spotted our first redback spider….small but deadly!! Everyone told us to be prepared to for hours & hours of boring driving but the two ni...