Day 99

07/10/2009

Up early to be at Dili International airport for 6:30. Umm. It's not quite Heathrow. Barely up to the standard of St Mary's, Scilly Isles. But the Airnorth plane was on time and up to scratch and we touched down in a new continent within 60 minutes.

The time difference in Darwin from GMT is 8:30. Never quite understood why certain countries bother with odd 30 minutes of difference.

Got a taxi (a Toyota Prius, no less) to the hotel, which is in the Lonely Planet budget range, but at £80 per night I was amazed to see so many early 20's gap year kids staying there. We were reasured about LP's classification when we killed 4 cockroaches before going to sleep this evening.

Hired bikes for the day and rode out to the aviation museum, then returned via the coast road to the north of Darwin and Cullin Bay marina to see some very nice boats.

Walked around the southern end of the city in the evening and ended up in the deck chair cinema eating very good Indonesian food and watching a very forgetable film.

Think Darwin is very expensive, not helped by the deteriorating exchange rate with the pound.

Town Darwin