One of the things that has thrilled me most about being in Adelaide is, surprisingly, the weather. Having spent the previous five months in the endlessly perfect days of the dry season in Queensland and the NT (It rained when I was in Noosa back at the beginning of July, then it rained on two days when I was in Airlie Beach but from July to November, that is the sum total of my rainy experiences), the mere sight of wet stuff falling out of the sky has me well exc...

23rd November After doing it for the first few weeks in Thailand, then not for seven months, I resumed running six weeks ago. It is always hard to fight that feeling of "running a few mornings a week is so little exercise, it cannot possibly make a difference", but Gem, in her infinate wisdom, reminded me how every little helps and even five minutes of exercise is better than none atall, thus I was able to rediscover some motivation to exercise. It doe...

19th November I have now been back in Adelaide for four days and every day I am here I walk down new streets and discover new places and every day I like it more! It is of a similar size to exeter and even from the centre, you can see green hills at the end of some of the streets.. My first two days here were spent mostly in a whirl of CV-printing and distributing and phoning to the working hostels. Then, yesterday I got my first shift in a pub on Grote Street....

15th November Having only spent five days in melbourne, I still do not feel as though I have actually seen the city. I find it generally takes, with most places, at least five days to get to know my way around and feel like I start to know it and Melbourne is massive and that time, especially when I spent at least 2days worth of it stressing about finding a job and buying the laptop and stuff, was not nearly enough. I really did not want to stay any longer thou...

12th November During my first day here, I developed what I now realise was a very one-sided and unfair impression of the city; Tuesday I had a bad day. I phoned many many places in search of fruit picking work, all in vain, I spent way too much, and realised that once again, my bank account is down to just a couple hundred dollars, making it even more important for me to find work soon. It was 32C and I trudged around getting hotter and sweatier and dirtier and ...