Those of us who live in the developed world should feel privileged. We have clean water to drink, will only starve if we have substantial mental issues, have health services for all (except if you are in the worlds biggest economy, the US) and a reasonable level of security. We should feel privileged as to have all this still puts us in a world minority. As I lay in my shaded, brightly coloured hammock, sharing a 6km long white sand beach with no more 15 peopl...

Western Australia is about the size of Europe and boasts a population of about 2m, 1.5m of whom live in and around Perth. The nearest big city is Adelaide (which isn't big), 2000km away. It took us 5 ½ hrs to get there and we crossed 3 time zones. In a nut shell, it's a very remote city, in a very big country surrounded by a lot of b***** all. A couple of days in Perth is nowhere near enough time to get a proper feel of the place, but it is long enough to kn...