Alice to Adelaide to Perth

So we're now in Perth after crossing thousands of miles and doing the longest peice of straight train track in the world! so what happened on the way I hear you ask...well Alice Springs was a heady mix of drunken parties, half a ton of fried chicken, massive screaming red bugs and lizards, snakes and crocks at a reptile house. All very fun! We got our train without a hitch back to Adelaide - where we managed to blag our tour guides house! Very nice it was too...so we chilled out went for picnics and generally relaxed in front of the box for 5 days (with a couple of trips to the art galleries for good measure) ... so thanks Steve - best tour guide ever! (PLUG:If your ever in Melbourne or Adelaide do some Groovy Grape Tours!!)

We then went on a 2 night 3 day trip across the Nullarbor Plain with the christmas India Pacific train - so called because we had a bloody Australian Idol winner on board who kept making the train stop to perform gigs...although it was handy in Kalgoorlie as it meant we could slope off to a pub for an hour... man thats a long journey though, thank god for sleeping tablets...lots of very strange places passed through as well...such as cook - an odd place with population of roughly 4! Including 2 very crazy ladies indeed with haircuts in the bowl tradition. Very amusing too seeing a guy dressed as santa in the middle of the desert nearly dying from heat exhaustion...


It was with great relief that we arrived in Perth to see Simon and Loz through he window of the train as it arrived at the platform. A short hop on public transport to their flat (very nice sea views and everything) a couple of drinks later fell asleep at about 9:00. Missed the biggest asteroid falling in Perth due to extreme exhaustion! Never mind I'm sure theres lots to soo coming up!