Well, this blog will probably cheer you all up as we have had a 'challenging' time here in Perth and Fremantle. Firstly, let me say that both places are delightful, especially Fremantle and the Perth beaches, and we have spent longer here than we planned. However, certain things have conspired against us whilst here and we thought you should see the 'other' side of travelling life! Firstly, the weather has not been good. We seem to have been plagued with col...

Since we have crossed the Nullarbor we have visited some lovely places in Western Australia (WA) and I shall do a quick rundown on them. However, we have just had the most amazing, unexpected day, in the middle of nowhere, and so this blog is actually going to focus mainly on that, because it is sometimes the most unexpected, unplanned days that turn out to be the best! First stop after the Nullarbor was Esperance, where we chilled for a few days and didn't dr...

Well, I guess this was the big bit for us. The Nullarbor Plain is one part of the flat, arid, almost treeless area, that connects Southern Australia with Western Australia but somehow 'Crossing the Nullarbor' now refers to crossing the whole expanse from Ceduna in the east to Norseman in the west - a distance of 1202km, 747miles or 12 hours and 18 mins of continuous driving at 100km/hr (the speed limit for trucks and large vehicles such as ours)! The name comes f...