On Saturday I went to Roma for cup-day at the racetrack. It's a bout four and a half hour from where I'm at now. Racing seem to bee very important and popular in Australia. It was estimated that there were about 8-10 000 at the court that day, and everyone is dressed up with hats, highheels and skirts or dresses, the men shirt and tie. There was...

hello, well we are in the bush again, we encounterd our first road trains and they are big and scary. we went to toowoomba yesterday and there was no accomodation because of some conventions going on, so we went onwards to chinchilla. we are on our way to mackay vai emerald to go fossiking for gems in rubyvale it should be fun. to day we went to...

After seeing enough sand, sea and surf to last at least a few weeks we've decided to head inland a few hundred klicks and see some of the real Australia. This place is all about long straight roads, red dust, white cotton fields, road trains, cowboys and girls and country. Started off in Charters Towers an old gold town which has now lost two th...