I can sum this day up in 4 words - cricket, sunshine, beer and b*****ks. The first 3 are fairly self explanatory - we sat on the embankment at McLean Park in the blazing sun and watched a one day international between New Zealand and Australia, oh and we had the odd cold beer. Australia won easily, but it was a great day out and the ground was small enough that you could actually almost stand on the boundary in places. We had a little chuckle as well when ...

Woke up in Clive and as we weren't being hassled to leave the site, we faffed for ages and the nice old boy gave me this, which I thought I'd share with you - as you can probably tell we didn't do too much today and I'm trying to pad things out!! A Traveller's 10 Commandments: 1 - Thou shalt not expect to find things as thou hast them at home, for thou hast left home to find things different. 2 - Thou shalt not take anything too seriously, for a carefree min...

Having spent the night at Butlin's, or at least the equivalent, and waking up to a coldish, overcast day, we decided to head into town and be organised. This entailed visiting a book exchange (we were running out of reading material), the internet, shopping for Nic's trek, sorting out the return of the van and deciding what and how to get to our next destination. By lunchtime we were pretty organised and after a snack we headed off on our guided tour of the...