Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 15, 2008, 4:53 pm
Ayers Rock: just a short detour from Alice Springs! Most people are familiar with Uluru—the big, red, flat topped boulder formerly known as Ayers Rock. If you haven't been there you still know about it: you've seen it on documentaries, in magazines, on the front cover of any book about Australia...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 12, 2008, 5:18 pm
ANZAC Hill, Alice Springs Alice Springs is a town in the middle of nowhere. Known in Australia as 'The Alice', it's about as close to the centre of Australia as you can get in a normal car. It's almost the halfway point between Darwin on the northern coast, and Adelaide on the southern coast. Twen...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 11, 2008, 2:33 pm
For us Poms, Australia is quite big Note to reader: this post should be read in an Aussie accent. Mate, Australia is a big country. If you're a Yank you can probably understand but if you're a Pom you can't. No matter how much you think you can imagine how big this country is, you're ...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 6, 2008, 4:06 pm
Chilli's Backpackers hostel Note to reader: this post should be read in an Aussie accent. We stumbled into Darwin's airport at 05:10 local time (02:40 Sumatra time) and were completely awed by how friendly, helpful and efficient the immigration and customs staff were. They were like n...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 4, 2008, 11:02 pm
Javan volcano Our three flights have gone smoothly so far today (actually yesterday—we're writing this at stupid o'clock in the morning somewhere over the Timor Sea), although it's been a very long day sitting around in badly organised airports. We had a final chuckle on the first plane from Pad...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 3, 2008, 7:02 pm
Visit Indonesia?! After a couple of pleasant days in the mountain air of Bukittinggi we were cooled down and ready to continue south. Our research on flights suggested that the cheapest flights to Australia go from Denpasar airport on Bali, because Bali is one of the Aussies' favourite places for ...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 2, 2008, 3:52 pm
A typical street scene in Bukittinggi Next day we took a tour of the area surrounding Bukittinggi. The itinerary included trips to a sugar cane farm, a peanut farm, a silversmiths' village (where we got to see some cool flying foxes), and so on, before a 44-hairpin descent down to the Lake Maninja...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Sep 1, 2008, 5:50 pm
Pekanbaru morning Next day, our mission was to take a bus—a proper, public bus—to the old Dutch colonial mountain retreat of Bukittinggi. Before we set off for the bus station we ate as much as we could at the all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast (all Glenn can eat is seven croissants in case you'...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Aug 31, 2008, 6:05 pm
Fenix Inn, Melaka The ferry terminal in Melaka is a small, single storey building just inside the river mouth. Tickets are not sold at the terminal. Instead you have to go to one of a handful of agents nearby. The one we'd bought our ticket from had told us to turn up at 09:30 for the 10:00 sailin...
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Glenn Livett posted an article on Last Known Location: Selling up and travelling the world - Aug 29, 2008, 4:45 pm
Bibimbap! So, we found ourselves in Melaka (Malacca), a place we didn't originally intend to visit. Its name is very funny if you're Greek, too, as it sounds exactly like a Greek curse-word. Anyway, we're glad we came here—it's a wonderful mix of different cultures. Six hundred years as one of t...
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