Hi all So next morning up we got and after passing the out of breath threesome as they slid sweatily from their tent, and we’d greeted them with a hearty ‘Morning, how you feeling?’ (pretty good by the look of them) we jumped into Priscilla and headed out for a look at all the underground buildings. These places are carved out of the rock (have I explained this already?) in an effort to keep them cool. First up was the Orthodox Serbian Catholic ...

Hi allSo after a few hours driving the next day we arrived back in Coober Pedy, which by now was sweltering under a proper desert sun and was dusty as a Kate Moss sneeze. We pulled back into the underground campsite and stopped the woman as she started to go through her twenty minute spiel by explaining we’d been there the week before. We set up in double quick time and headed out to see Crocodile Harry’s place.Now Crocodile Harry is an absolute legen...

Hi all So, Coober Pedy. The place where dreams and fortunes are made. The opal mining capital of the world. Place of underground Hobbit homes and the scene of a whole host of films and television series. Now Coober Pedy is in the middle of the desert proper. Red sand and outback for miles around. Rather predictably then, when we arrived it was bowing a gale. And as a result there was a major sand storm going on. Great. But on the plus side we stayed in an under...