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We visit what seems like the edge of Australia: 4,000 square miles of virtually nothing, within 110km of Australia’s most populous city. Click here to see if we fell off.

We visit Australia’s premier wine-producing region and got quite trollied, thanks very much. Click here to see (hic) how we got on.

We spend the second weekend in a row goggling Australia’s weird animals. Also, we nearly get extremely sick on a boat. Click here for all the topsy-turvyness we could handle.

Since arriving in Sydney, we’ve done many things. We’ve got a bank account (albeit one with not much cash in it), mobile phones, and a place to live. We’ve even got jobs.
Even better, though, we’ve joined a library.
Currently I’m reading Great Mistakes of Australian History, edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Not because [...]

The truly interesting part of our trip has come to an end, and we’re on a kind of backpacker hiatus in Sydney. Still, SFTGE has had its fair share of readers. Click here to find out how you arrived.

Five months, 15,000 miles, and over 6,000 photos. One fake driving license and a multitude of cockroaches. Countless trains, buses and boats. We must have learned something. Click here to find out what.

I stood in knee-high waves for hours before I took a good picture of a surfer. If you’re heading to a beach this weekend, learn from my mistakes by clicking here.

Our hotel in Kuta was lovely. The pool was deep blue, clean and refreshing. Our room was large and shady, and the New Yorker installed next to us was surfing his way around the world.
Oh, and there was a scorpion in the bathroom.
When we left London, I was afraid of anything with more legs and [...]

We leave Senggigi and get ourselves some wheels. Worn down wheels with defective lights, yes, but wheels nonetheless. See how we fared in the world’s worst rental car by clicking here.

We get out of Bali and head to Lombok, 25km away and across the ocean. We visit the world’s least-seaworthy ferry and reach the end of our tethers with the touts. Click here to see why a little cynicism can be a good thing.