Introduction

After being rudely ejected from America I returned to the UK and found a job at the end of a long and strenuous search. Rather awesomely, the job doesn’t start until September 2014, so I decided to continue my continental drift and booked a trip to Australia. I will be Down Under for about five months, travelling around and trying to work for money or accommodation. The plan is not to have too much of a plan, but I hope to really get a feel of what life is like in Australia as well as doing typical tourist/backpacker activities. Given that I will be travelling alone for a long time, and without an itinerary, I was both excited and nervous in the run up to departure day. Would it be an odyssey of non-stop thrills and brilliant companionship? Or will the result be loneliness and a colossal loss of money? Either way it should make for some entertaining blog posts.

The purpose of this blog is threefold:

- To keep a record of the adventure

- To keep those interested informed of what I’m up to

- To improve my writing skills.

I plan on updating the blog whenever I have internet access and something worth writing about.

Before I start putting the Ali in Australia, I will be stopping over in Hong Kong for six days, where I hope to attend a Hong Kong First Division football match and take on the locals at table tennis…

The start of my journey. Well actually it would be a further two hours until my departure and I would leave the driveway in a car rather than on foot.