we really do have to tear ourselves away from here today. our adelaide family have been so welcoming and we have felt at ease here- this has been one of the nicest places to stay so far!we have spent nearly 3 weeks in total here - longer than anywhere else and now things are beginning to feel a bit too comfy so its time for another goodbye, this...

After Mildura we crossed the border from Victoria into South Australia, now making us be 10.5 hours in front of the UK. We also had to go through a 'Fruit Fly' Border Check Point... they searched our van for anything we should be taking across (Fruit, Veg, Plants etc).... we were ok, we got the heads-up in Mildura and ditched everything! We then...

Yeah, that's right, still in Renmark, still working, and still VERY bored with the sight of bloody mandarins. Some bright spark (rumoured to have been me actually) came up with the hot idea of starting work at 0730 every day in order to only do a half-day at the weekend. So for the past two mornings I've been even more bleary-eyed than ever firs...

Once again a very quick one due to having just ten minutes in which to write this entry - speed typing never was my forté but I should really hurry anyway... The last week or so has been pretty hardcore, working 8 til half 4 every day (6 day week!) in a packing shed putting mandarins into cardboard boxes on a wierd kind of production line and wh...