Tuesday 20th March - Monday 9th April! A little weiry after the three day trip and after a night out with the 'Family'.  I have decided that I would like to stay in Alice Springs for a while as it would be nice to stay in one place for a bit and everyone at Annie's seem tobe nice people too.  Also I get a chance to work for my accommodation, so helps keep my cost down too.  Alice Springs is a strange place but with some very interesting people. Se...

Tuesday 10th AprilArrived in Darwin and thank god I didn't have far to go from the bus station to my hostel, just? a very shrt walk around the corner.? Had a good journey on the Grey Hound and got a decent nights sleep too.First impressions of Darwin are good but the humidity is crazey and this time of year it lowering!!? The hostel is good, quite big but clean which is great and comfey beds too.? Having arrived around tea time all I did was to settle in to m...

Tuesday 6th March So arrived in Adelaide at 5.10am at the YHA and as I couldn't check into my room yet I decided to read some leaflets on what I wanted todo while I was here. So when I saw the opportunity to see Dolphins and to swim with them I though this was an opportunity I couldn't miss. Plus this is one of my most favourite areas for wine so I spyed a couple of trips to vineyards that I wanted to see too.But a small spanner was thrown into the w...

Friday 9th March So today was my first vineyard trip and it was absolutely brilliant. It was to the Adelaide Hills and McClaren Valley. It was with a group called Prime Mini Tours and they were brilliant. They aim their bookings at the bit more mature market which was great and their tours may be abit more money but still competative. There was only 5 of us on the bus so it was alot easier and we had more time when it came to the wine tastings.I was pic...

Monday 5th March Today was going to be purely traveling and not much fun but I was ready to move on. A taxi picked me up at 5.30am from the hostel to take me to the bus station where I picked up the 6.00am bus to Ballarat. So slept on the bus for most of the time and we arrived in Ballarat for 9.30am and here was the bit I was not looking forward to, my bus to Adelaide was not until 10.00pm!! And there is not a great deal todo in Ballarat let me tell you. So pre...