Starting Point

Most of the blogs, books and even the planes fly from London to Sydney. Going the other way is just that little bit different.

Where did it start?
My mum used to tell me stories about how she travelled from Cape Town to London with 4 kids in tow meeting princes and diplomats along the way.
My dad was a merchant sailor and took us from Plymouth to Sydney by way of the Suez Canal, my earliest memory is of a toy truck rolling on a deck, Im told that was during a force 12 gale in the mid-atlantic. Whilst everyone had their life jackets on waiting to flip because we couldnt get enough balast on board with no cargo, I laughed and played the whole time.
I never have money to travel.
I went to uni to study town planning but my real goal was to get into transportation planning, never worked out thou.

My first lecturer, Prof Colin Taylor published:
Great Non-Journeys of Australia

and I more recently been fascinated by
The Man in Seat 61

More recent literature…
Never read it but saving to buy a copy:
Wrong Way Home: Peter Moore

he’s gone around the world too

Having seen a contiki tour im not too sure about the OzBUS