I'm not going to lie, the first few days being home were probably the hardest. I've read blogs, talked to people, came back with with pretty low expectations but it was still hard... A feeling of being completely lost and that you're not meant to be there... Unable to identify with the general, random, day … Continue reading Reflections on a Month Gone By
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Sunshine, Sushi and Easter Fireworks
Latest realisations: I really really want to eat my dad's homemade curry and a roast beef dinner. Perhaps not at the same time though... That I am now calling trousers 'pants'... A little worrying for what I might say in error when I get home... That apparently speaking English in a native English speaking country … Continue reading Sunshine, Sushi and Easter Fireworks
George Finds Himself in an Outback Horror Movie
OUTBACK BINGO Get beeped at by a road train Sarah needs to get someone to take off an item of clothing Get 10 people to acknowledge us by waving or lifting a finger In a roadhouse one of has to ask one of the staff what they would do if they were stuck in a … Continue reading George Finds Himself in an Outback Horror Movie
George Explores Esperance
We awake to a different background than the night previously. Darkness and stars are replaced with blue skies, water and waves. The beach literally just across the road from the hostel, Esperance's coastline stretches on for miles. Following the road east out of Esperance, we reach Cape Le Grande National Park. For an area covered … Continue reading George Explores Esperance
George Does Albany to Esperance
Free pancakes start the next day. We go driving. We take George up Mt Melville and revisit the Brig Amity in daylight. We explore the buildings nearby and learn more of Albany's history. Until 1897 and the opening of Fremantle as a port, Albany was Western Australia's only deep water port. It nearly became modern … Continue reading George Does Albany to Esperance
George Sightsees From Augusta to Albany
Back on the road the next day Sarah directs me and George to Beedlup Falls, where George ends up behind bars. They are not the most exciting waterfalls I've ever seen... We then swing through the steeply hilled Pemberton and pass through the many national parks filled with forests that cover the south west of … Continue reading George Sightsees From Augusta to Albany
Scottish Footprints 