We spent our first four days or so in Darwin at the Cavenagh Hostel.  That could be meant literally, as there's so little to do here that we spent most of our time back at the hostel where we could at least get some blessed air-con relief... The weather in Darwin is just horrible.  I don't know why anyone would choose to live here for a number of reasons, but weather is top of my list.  From December to April it rains torrentially every day, and it's ve...

We had a mammoth road trip ahead of us as we left Adelaide, over 2200 miles right through the heart of the continent.  We were doing two 'relocations' for rental companies, one from Adelaide to Alice Springs, and the next from Alice up to Darwin.  A relocation is basically when a nationwide rental company has a vehicle in one city, but needs it in another for a customer to rent, and so they offer very cheap rates and sometimes other incentives to get peo...