No more backpackers...and a hot tub!
Trip Start
Mar 15, 2006
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Trip End
May 30, 2007
Sandfly,
Australia
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Given that at the end of my picking stint I was spending more on these things than I was actually making, it seemed like a pretty good idea. Plus it would mean spending time with the actual locals finally, rather than other backpackers (and ones of every country except the one I'm in too!)
I have now been living with Geoff for the past 2 and a half weeks, and I'm probably going to be here for a couple more
01. View over Hobart from Mt. Wellington
. It seems I landed on my feet a bit here too. Geoff's a really nice guy; he's 73 but runs around like he's 20 years younger and is more like my age when talking to him...just with a hell of a lot more experience.In my time here so far I have done gardening, putting up electric fence, painting other wooden ones, clearing out chook (sorry, chicken) sheds, digging up thistles from the paddocks, helping out with the animals, etc, etc... and it great!! I spend all day outside in the fresh country air and sunshine. I get to do a variety of things, rather than picking fruits all day every day. And in the evening he has a hot tub to soak the muscles in!!
What's been great as well is that he has been taking me all over the place to see different things in our time off, something he really isn't obliged to do. It means that from a traveling point of view I'm getting to see so much more of the area than I ever thought I would, along with meeting far more locals than I otherwise would, by living amongst them.
In actual fact, Geoff is originally from England, but given the way he refers to the Poms, I might as well be living with a born and bred Aussie
02. Country Fayre
! It seems to be a common occurrence this, and he seems to be doing his up most to convince me that I'd be mad to return. Hmmm...its getting tempting. But at the same time, the more stick I take for being a Pom, the more I find myself wanting to defend it.Who knows what the future holds... This trip is intriguing!
Oh, by the way, I just want to send a special congratulations to the guest editor of my last December blog. My great friends have just been nominated for a BAFTA! (Thats like a British Oscar for those of you who don't know.) So go check out their website at www.rockutainment.com I look forward to jumping on board again when I return... thats if I'm still allowed now they've gone big-time! Good luck boys.
Comments
Tassie
Great piccies - lucky guy - but thought you were supposed to paint the fence NOT the grass!!