King’s Canyon & Coober Pedy

Day 5

17^th March 2017

Day 3 of the ‘Alice Springs to Adelaide’ Tour

Another super early start but made it easily enough, mostly because I awoke covered in sweat and eager to get out of the tent.

The morning’s destination was King’s Canyon. The idea was to start walking at daybreak between 6am and 7am and get out by 10am. There is a designated start point for all walks (clearly marked on maps and clearly signposted) which is a big carpark with sheltered spaces for sitting out of the sun, clean toilets and taps for drinking water. By the toilet sinks there is the following sign which I think is brilliant.

Kata Tjuta & Uluru

Day 3

15^th March 2017

Day 1 of the ‘Alice Springs to Adelaide’ Tour

So the two words I would use to describe this day as I experienced it are ‘deeply uncomfortable’. These encompass both the sense of humiliation and defeat as well as the horrible feeling of being rather unwell. What follows is a mixture of reflection on a lack of self awareness on my part, a massive moan, and me generally feeling sorry for myself. Please feel free, therefore, to completely skip this post and simply read the tour itinerary (accessible via the link above) only!

Sydney

For info on how the Aussie adventure came to be, click here!

Day 0 (haha)

11^th March 2017 / 12^th March 2017 – arrival to Sydney

So the first thing to say about getting to Australia in just the one weekend with a layover stop of only one and a half hours is that oh-my-god it’s insane. I have never been on such a long haul flight before so it was quite an experience and not a pleasant one!! For the first seven hour leg to Dubai, filled the whole time with movies (including La La Land, which was strange, but I digress) which was fine, and was thinking ‘yeah, cool, I can do this!’ and then the thirteen hour leg started and I was still okay…watched several more movies…made sure to keep jiggling my legs…had an awkard 3 hour nap…then with about four hours to go, I felt so sick and ill and just wanted the whole thing to be over.

Off to Australia!

Hi all (or just Mum, not sure who reads this…)!

So since 2015, I have been on a couple of good holidays (Italy for my honeymoon and North Wales just before one Christmas, in case you’re interested!), of course, but as I have resumed full time work and life, I have (unfortunately) neglected to blog about them.

However, plans have been made to visit Australia for two weeks with an old secondary school friend of mine to go and see a bit of it and also to visit a third school friend who is currently travelling out there (so we haven’t seen her in a while).

So, I thought, time to return to this blog, as it’s sure to be a fairly epic adventure. Unlike many people I know, I’ve never been especially desperate to visit Aus (not sure why, it’s nothing personal, I think it’s just so far away…also, I’m not a massive water sports or adrenaline-seeking type!), however with a mate out there at the moment…this is the perfect time!

So follow / read on to discover more about my Aussie adventure with friends (left Dave at home, but he’s been down under before, so didn’t feel tooooo guilty haha!)…!

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

Ro x