Dover, United Kingdom
Sunday, February 10, 2008
To cut a long story short (and it has been a long long story) and as most of you readers will already know, we are back where we belong in dover, writing this at 3am because we are suffering from jet lag! Back to our story, yes, that by chance meeting resulted in us selling maz- to an Israeli guy and his german girlfriend who were heading back to perth - they got a bargain and we got the opportunity to fly home a bit sooner than planned. A happy ending we hope! Its been almost 17 weeks on this trip of a lifetime- lots of highs and a few little lows on the way - we have seen and learnt so much in that time. Oz is full of amazing places and people and we are so lucky to have been able to experience the warmth (we wont forget the 50 degrees in coober pedy) of the welcome we received here- oz loves tourists! so , if you are thinking of visiting give us a call- theres quite a few places we can recommend! We hope to be back in a couple of years time- to do the top end and the gold coast - provided its stopped raining by then! Our last couple of days in oz went like a flash - on the day we sold maz we went straight to a hire car company and took out our fifth vehicle in 17 weeks- a Toyota prius - the new green car of the future - jim loved it! We hotfooted it out of the city and managed to find finnie (a friend of a friend) at home in patterson lakes (who needs sat nav and our address book was back at base so we were just as surprised to find her as she was when we turned up on her doorstep!). a quick visit there and we pop down the road to say cheerio to tony and wendy- (see you in 18 months guys!) . next day- more shopping and a trip on the yarra river and we see the steve Irwin sea shepherd greenpeace ship docked in the harbour - its trying to prevent the Japanese whalers so keep up the good work and save the whales! (sadly we didn't see any this trip), Tuesday we went to say tata to the roos and koalas at
Melbourne zoo (didn't see many of those in the wild either)and then - on another big day for Australia -sorry day for the stolen generation of aborigines- being televised live everywhere from the new government in
Canberra (we stood on those lawns now on tv!) - we cram everything into our bags for the last time and head for the airport. Sadly we didn't get the chance for a leaving ceremony to burn the tent because maz's new owners wanted it - sorry if we've deprived you of a grand finale! .Time to go now. Hope you enjoyed the ride with us on this blog. Catch you later!
The keenos - jim bev and Natalie. The end.p.s. keep blogging - we've got 9000 photos - lots will be added to this blog when we get internet access at home. That should keep us going until the next trip....
