Archive for 2007
Worked on a farm, got a muscle in my arm
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Published by H October 22nd, 2007 in WA, Carnarvon.
The challenge was set, to find jobs and save up $6000 (£2600) in six weeks so we could carry on North before the rainy season got into full swing and hopefully make it all the way to Melbourne in time for Christmas without having to work again.
To achieve this financial goal, we’d have to live very basically and work a lot of hours. Caravan parks would be a bit expensive so we’d have to try a combination of parking up in lay-bys and asking our employers if they’d kindly let us camp on their land (which would have the double benefit of saving us fuel from commuting). We’d only have to put up with these living conditions for six weeks so we reckoned it’d be difficult but achievable.
A Little Out Of Date!This is a little out of date now, as I wrote it many months ago back in Perth and never had the chance to put it on the blog! So apologies for the delay and hopefully we’ll be able to bring you up to date with all our more recent travel adventures shortly!
I sit writing […]
Meet Bessie, our 1973 VW campervan! We both hankered after one of these since before we met each other but in Britain they are so expensive and often rusty. We had to be satisfied with peering around beautiful VWs during our annual visits to Bug Jam festival.
Ha ha, perhaps you thought we were back in the UK. No, but we’re back on the net, and back in Western uncivilisation. A couple of paragraphs on what we’ve been up to since our last report back in April…
We headed back up to Malaysia, via the small colonial town of Melaka, which has a […]
We spent a very stressful week preparing Bessie and ourselves for our epic roadtrip. Just before I left work, Frank, my boss at the garage and I had given Bessie a full service and fixed a few little niggly faults. Tace and I also had to make some improvements to the interior so we’d be […]
In an experience quite opposite to any other taxi-related transaction we’d experienced so far, we had to grapple with drivers who didn’t want our business because they were ‘too busy’. Eventually we convinced a driver to take us but he was reluctant to take us to an ATM on the way to the hostel as he didn’t have time, so instead we paid using his amazing high-tech onboard credit card system which buggered up and ended up taking far longer than pulling over at an ATM somewhere. Singapore taxi drivers really are a different breed.
We opted for one of the well put together travel packages offered at Father’s and took a minibus ride to the Northeastern coast of Malaysia. The trip started with the loading of ourselves, several other backpackers and somehow, all our luggage, into a very nice and brand-spanking new minibus.
We’ve the vaguest, dodgiest guidebook so South East Asia so we’re relying on the recommendations given to us by Lou the first time we met her and Clarence from Didders!
We booked the VIP bus to Cameron Highlands through our hostel (not because we’re posh but the VIP bus leaves a bit later which means we got a bit of a lie-in and it worked out about one pound more expensive). While waiting for the bus we got talking to a German couple, plus a bunch of British pensioners who loved nothing more but to talk about the collapse of Rover, which of course is very relevant to Malaysia!?
We’ve been out of India for a while now. We’ve only just stopped thinking of prices in Rupes (and converting currency into Rupes instead of pounds to ascertain their true value) but we still hanker for a good thali when we’re hungry.
