Banyan View Lodge Darwin

We arrived at 4am in Australia. Arrived at our hostel, which was shut. We then waited for 2 hours for the reception to open and went into our room. There was an issue with Em's top bunk bed (no ladder and a stranger underneath) so she climbed into my bunk bed. We went for a pub meal and looked around Darwin. That evening we went out and saw the Darwin night life - AWESOME!
20th May - Walked to the hotel that our tour was starting at, at 8.30 and basically realised that we had missed our t...

And we are off! The monster first leg was covered by little effort from ourselves as jets tend to get to their destinations no matter our condition. We have to say that we were mightily impressed by Qantas onboard entertainment. It even put a few HTPCs to shame. On top of the traditional radio and games. It was truly a jukebox putting the latest music, movies and tv series at ones becon and call. Too bad the service proved to be less than equal to that level. The attendants almost missed me d...

We got an extra day in Darwin, because of us being moved to a shorter Kakadu tour. Knowing this we left out the city's main museum the first day. After the trying previous days, we chose to have a leisurely breakfast in town. Over a nice meal we could follow how the locals dropped in and had their morning coffee and toast. That was, if they didn't go for soup or dahl. The others from the tour seemed to have similar plans, and we kept bumping into them, both getting supplies around town and th...

Well, i made it to Australia. Only a 4 hr flight from Singapore and +2 hrs time difference. I arrived at the airport at 4.30 in the morining, so decided to sleep at the airport (found a couch) and find a hostel in the morning. I stayed at the airport until 7.00am when i dragged myself over to the only coffee bar in the airport (its pretty small) and got myself a morning coffee boost before taking the Shuttle Bus to the centre of Darwin. I eventually checked in at 12.00 at a cool hostel with f...

Well we arrived in Darwin at 1am to a blanket of heat and humidity. It's a lot smaller than we were expecting but we had some fun. Our hostel was a YWCA with a swimming pool (we couldnt see the bottom but we swam in it anyway, joking about crocs then later found out crocs do get in the pools up here) First day we wandered the city centre and toured the underground oil wells that were built in WW2 as the above ground ones were a bombing target. We also went to the Crocosaurus Aquarium. I think...

My first day in Darwin, in civilization again. I had an early start and walked into the center of town - past shops, restaurants, ice cream bars, supermarkets, cinemas and loads of other hostels. (I'm staying at the Banyan View Lodge as recommend by Stu long ago). I walked past the Northern Parliament building and to Survivors look out over the harbor. From here I could see over the wharfs and though I might wander down to Stokes Hill Wharf. This was a little bit of a walk (all good exercise,...

After 6,649 km we reached Darwin and finally had to hand the campervan back. I looked at Louise as I handed the keys back and I could see she was gutted....not!

Actually, we had spent the previous night trying to disguise and fix all the things which we had broken over the previous 5 weeks such as the interior light, the fridge shelf, the steering wheel (don't ask) and the table. The campervan had served us well, it had taken a bit of a beating, been shaken to bits though all Louise c...