After doing some shopping for some camping stuff and food we hit the permanent pool party at the backpackers (or so Lonely Planet book makes you believe). Believe it or not this is the first time on the trip we have just chilled by the pool (holiday from the holiday) complete with the Brits abroad crowd. We are in pseudo traveller country, the people here 'travel' with huge suitcases containing extensive wardrobes. Shuttle buses wisk them from the door to the a...

Sitting on deck chairs beer in hand watching the sunset. We are waiting for the stars to rise and the aptly named deck chair cinema to start. Yep we are in Darwin having just got here, 31 degrees C and not too humid - nice. Before the film started, a film crew were doing some filming on the cinema - the same thing happened last time when we watched a film when horizontal (Govindas Sydney 2001). We are seeing once, which turned out to be a very simple low budg...