Annie's Place Alice Springs

Last nights "visit the town" day entailed a walk into Alice Springs followed by internet catchup, 2 hours, followed by several hours of a$10 jugs of Alice Springs bitter and an evening meal at Annies Place, a backpacker lodge, bar and restaurant in the middle of town. Todays drive was the reverse of the one we did about a week ago and we have once again booked into the outback caravan park for one night. We often listen to the rasio and today there was a question and answer show. The host wou...

Having to be up at 5am does at least have the advantage of seeing an amazing sunrise with nothing restricting your view all the way to the horizon. That big sun was soon baking the arid landscape maybe explaining why the more kangaroos we saw were either hopping about being too hot to stand still on the scorching red sand or lying flat out in the shade. We crossed over the Queensland - Northern Territory border in the morning with a 30 min time difference between them and getting another chan...

Desert Venturer Er is meer dan zon, zee en strand aan Australië, tijd om de andere zijde te ontdekken: het binnenland, oftewel The Outback. Met een bus de woestijn in, dwars door Australië van Cairns naar Alice Springs. In drie dagen tijd een dikke tweeduizend kilometer afleggen. En in diezelfde drie dagen in totaal slecht tien andere voertuigen tegen komen, in Nederland kun je nog geen twee kilometer rijden zonder in een file terecht te komen! ;) Had ik al gezegd dat het HEET is in de woesti...

Desert Venturer Er is meer dan zon, zee en strand aan Australië, tijd om de andere zijde te ontdekken: het binnenland, oftewel The Outback. Met een bus de woestijn in, dwars door Australië van Cairns naar Alice Springs. In drie dagen tijd een dikke tweeduizend kilometer afleggen. En in diezelfde drie dagen in totaal slecht tien andere voertuigen tegen komen, in Nederland kun je nog geen twee kilometer rijden zonder in een file terecht te komen! ;) Had ik al gezegd dat het HEET is in de woesti...

After a short flight from Perth, where it had only taken me about 6 attempts and various levels of disrobing to get through the security whilst Burt and Crow peered on anxiously (probably thinking I would never be gone) I arrived at the oasis Alice Springs. I was picked up at the airport by a representative of Annie's Place, the hostel which was running the tour that myself and my Tasmanian friend Anna would be joining. The Rock tour. If you can stretch your imagination the tour encompassed K...

We took the morning flight to Alice Springs and it felt nice to be on a plane again. After weeks behind the wheel there was a novelty in having someone else drive, although on this occasion, sitting in a 737, I wouldn't have minded giving it a try. Like the drive however, the flight was relatively long (over 2 hours) and the countryside appeared as featureless from the sky as it did from the ground. Our bed for the night was in a backpackers called Annie's Place, recommended by a troop of Eng...

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It has finally happened......The Flanowitz has left Freo!!!! It was an emotional seven months, mostly brought on by a combination of sleep deprivation and Passion Pop, but thats anothe story!!!

I got a flight out to Ayers Rock resort last Tuesday and spent the night in the Outback pionner hostel and Lodge! The resort at Ayres Rock is a bit strange!!! They build it in the late 80s to better manage the amount of people that visit the Rock!! There are 4 hostels and...

We woke to another grey, miserable, rainy day in Cairns, which is a bit sickening when I know from people back at home that there happens to be a heatwave in the UK at the moment. For once we were relatively well organised and had done the majority of our packing last night, even more impressive was the fact that we'd managed to fit all of our belongings into just our rucksacks and daybags. Admittedly we could hardly pick them up, but I still feel it was quite an achievement for us. Checking ...