Woah! I’m freakin’ up to date!!!

As I mentioned in this post, I’ve had a massive gap (almost 2 months) of not being able to update this site on a regular basis, so I decided to backdate all the entries starting from when we left Broome up until now (we’re in Darwin). If you want to read them in order, click here to jump back to the start of the backdated entries and just use the “next post” link at the top of the page to move through them all sequentially until you get to this post.

We got to Darwin a few days ago, and have been running around doing the usual town chores (repairs, new tyres for troopy etc) - but also, as luck would have it, we got here right in time for the Darwin festival. So we’ve had the opportunity to go out and see some festival stuff - we saw a deckchair cinema flick - Children of the Silk Road - and caught a performance by a Korean percussion group which was just amazing.

Tonight we went to the Mindil Markets, which are held every week on the beach in Darwin - and caught up with Kath, who’s in town for a conference. The markets were pretty cool, some good stuff and a lot of the usual market fare - but the food is fantastic. A massive amount of choice including some authentic Indonesian/Malay street cuisine - I ate myself stupid, starting with some fried prawn dumplings and spring rolls, a mango lassi as a palette cleanser, then a nasi lemak (Eva, this one’s for you!).