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TALES


Cautionary tales
The problem with learning by experience is that you sometimes learn too late … better to learn from the experience of others.

My wife and I owned a backpacker hostel for fifteen years and, during that time, over100,000 people passed through our doors.  That's a lot of people and it is not surprising that some found themselves in tricky situations during the course of their travels.


Cautionary tales is about these people and about others who got themselves into strife in one way or another.  All the tales are true.







Awesome jobs 

There are ways to make money which are perfectly legal but that doesn't mean you would want the folks back home to know that ...









mud wrestling
beach boys



Wild Australia


Australia broke away from the super continent of Gondwanaland about 100 million years ago and pursued a separate evolutionary journey after that. The result is a mix of plants and animals not seen anywhere else on the planet







strangler fig
lorikeets



Outback
If you cross the mountains that run down the east coast, you enter an arid land that stretches all the way to the Indian Ocean. We call it the outback.






Angus



Humour
A crazy collection of all sorts of things.






man in the middle




Travel blogs
Blogs about my overseas travel.