After our fantastic trip round Kakadu, we set our sights on that great Australian icon ... no not Kylie but Uluru (or Ayers Rock as it used to be known). Now Australia is huge, not just big, but huge. It took us three days to travel from the far north Darwin down to Alice Spring (from where we then blasted out to Uluru). The trip down was great for showing us the scale of the country (did we mention it was big) and for letting us see some of the lesser known sig...

G'day. After a few weeks on the coast it was time to experience the other side of Australia. So a cheap flight halfway across the country (only 4 hours!) and we're in Darwin. Darwin is ... well a bit of a dump. It has a port, a couple of half-attempts at tourist attractions but is really quite sleepy and small. Like a few places in Australia the town is particularly ugly and from a town planning point of view pretty awful. (Admittedly one of the reasons for th...