If Frank Sinatra would have gone to Mooroopna instead of New York he would have sung about the city that never wakes up. You see, not a lot goes on in Mooroopna. It has a supermarket, a pub, a few little shops and a pizza restaurant amongst some other insignificant places of non-interest. It has a population of 7203 topped up by backpackers. But I'm not here for the social life. I'm here to work and earn money at the local cannery, where I worked last year. I le...

My adventure in Mooroopna has now come to an end as the tomato season at the cannery has finished. I have now worked 70 days and require another 18 days to apply for my second year visa. The job at the cannery has gone really well. I have been working every day Monday to Sunday for the last six weeks or so with just two days off for Easter but it has been worth it as I have managed to earn a bit of money to help go towards my future travels this year. As I mentio...

In my last blog I mentioned that as long as it didn't go pear-shaped then I would be staying at the orchard for as long as there was work or to get my second visa, whichever was the earliest. Well, 12 days is a long time in pear picking! The work was drying up, lots of people were leaving and the pears were getting smaller meaning less bins for me to pick and therefore less money. It got to the point where the motivation to work just wasn't there. In the last 11...