Australia 1986 & 1987
I arrived in Australia in 1986, virtually penniless after a year travelling through Asia. I spent the next four months travelling and working across Western Australia and the Northern Territory. One of the highlights was two weeks working for a fairground that visited Aboriginal communities in the Great Gibson Desert—about as close to the middle of nowhere as I have ever been.
I then headed to Sydney, where I first met up with Eric for our second Christmas together, having spent the previous year in Goa, India. This was followed by a very drunken two months living in Kings Cross with mad Simon. After that, I travelled to New Zealand for three months to attend the 1987 Rugby World Cup. On my return, I headed up the Australian coast, including watching Wales beat England in the quarter-final in Brisbane, before being ceremonially dumped out by the All Blacks in the semi-final the following week. A few weeks of hitchhiking later, I arrived at Cape Tribulation in the Daintree Rainforest. Then it was across to Darwin via Kakadu National Park, then onto Timor.
2000
I returned in 2000 with Ro to attend a friends wedding in Sydney, gave us time to see the New South Wales Coast
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