Wednesday 23rd March – Tuesday 29th March
So a week in Perth before heading off to Liverpool to catch up our newly adulted daughter.
Spent the first day catching up with a couple of ex-work colleagues before moving on to our friend Eric's place to catch up with the family and get ourselves organised for the trip.
Editors note: At some point apparently, we believed that we could travel to Europe for 5 weeks with a small red suitcase and hand luggage. That point now seems a long way away and incredibly naïve.
Fortunately Eric came to the rescue with a second suitcase and better hand luggage for Steve.
So the second phase of the Gap Year ends – twelve and a half thousand kilometres in Mighty Merc so far.
Highlights:
Avoiding the floods on the East Coast
The Flereeereeerer Peninsula in SA
Free camping on the Nullarbor and watching the sunrise
The entire South West coast of WA
What could go wrong:
Misplacing the keys to the bike on day one
Discovering dodgy spare tyre on the trailer in the first week
Losing the trailer on a speed hump in Kiama
Steve leaving his bathers in an amenities block in South West Rocks
Obviously I got a little behind in the updates so as I post this update we are sitting in a little hotel in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Not sure how we will go with European updates but watch this space... so far we have visited Liverpool (briefly) spent a week in Portugal with family (absolutely magic) and arrived in Ireland (Dublin) and driven to Northern Ireland (Belfast and Carrickfergus)
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