Royal Flying Doctor Visitors Centre Alice Springs

... has a lot to answer for.

Did I go with rose tinted glasses?
Yes, of course I did.
Was it on my list of places that I have wanted to visit for a long long time?
Yes, of course it was.
What was I expecting?
Lots of sheep, sheep station and an ice cream parlour.
Did I get that?
No I didn't... but was I …

Levé a 6:45 pour partir tôt vers Alice Springs. Au déjeuner j'ai enfin gouté la fameuse vegemite sur ma tartine, et c'est pas si terrible que ça finalement. Ça a le même gout que de l'oxo pur étalé sur le pain, c'est abominablement salé, mais pas si degueu qu'on le dis, d'ailleurs j'ai mangé toute la tartine avec.
Après je suis allé au Desert …

We love Alice Springs!!!

Its cool for starters. A mere 37 degrees today and not 97% humidity like it was in Darwin. We only realised just how sticky Darwin was (we must have acclimatised on the Gibb River Road after all) when we opened our back packs today and were surprised to find all our clothes damp..... Alice feels positively 'spring …

Max's fact of the day: John Flynn was the founder of the Royal Flying Doctors Service.

Lucy's fact of the day - To be part of the School of the Air you need to be more than 50km from Alice Springs.

Hi everyone,

Today was our chance to explore all of what Alice Springs has to offer.

The kids started the day out by …

The kids went to school this morning. Not Anderson Creek Primary, and not a regular type school either. It was a visit to the largest classroom in the world, School of the Air. The classroom covers much of NT and some of the students are over 600km away, on remote cattle stations, research facilities or simply traveling the countryside. The school …

The Red Centre! Here we are.

We arrived in hot and dry Alice Springs around 1pm and together with 3 others backpackers we shared a taxi to the pick-up depot from the Wicked Van organization (http://www.wickedcampers.com.au/) where we had rented our vehicle. Us, 29 days and that rusty thing on 4 wheels - ending up in Melbourne at the end, …

... on a trip like this) and then play cards.  On waking, we have one more museum to visit and its a cracker - the Royal Flying Doctor Visitors Centre. Lovely cup of tea and cake first to wake everyone up at their cafe and then into their rather new and ...