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I have decided to make a trip to Australia to try and see as many of the AP systems there as I can squeeze in. We plan to fly to Perth on about 10 September 2008 and then hire a car and drive to Ballarat to see family and friends there and then Melbourne and Sydney. My wife wants to run the Sydney Marathon on the 21 September (I'll just wait for her and drink beer) and then fly to NZ to see friends there.

Our currency is worthless (currently R7.25 to the AUS$) so we are on a very tight budget and would appreciate anyone who could put us up in a spare room, tent, garage, couch for a night or two in these (or any other towns). I would gladly put up an AP'ers visiting South Africa in return.

Any suggestions for the itinerary, accomodation, travel arrangements etc would be appreciated as we have haven't been to Oz yet.

Cheers

Would gladly put you up in Kal Synapto - you are aware that ballarat is almost 4 days drive from perth?

Kal is a good first stop from perth

Edit - If you need a two man tent for the trip across the nullabor (good time of year for camping) you can have ours. Leave it somewhere in melbourne and we can pick it up in Jan

And that you could fly from perth to melbourne, buy a cheap car to drive to Ballarat and still have change in what you'd spend on driving over

then drive it from melbourne to sydney, thats only 900kms

Or drive to Kal and fly to melbourne

You do know all the good systems are in Queensland don't you S . That's where the members know how to get their siphons to work

Done the nullabore.....................sorry I fell asleep just thinking about it...........can you fly to Melb? might be cheaper than driving with the price of petrol(and sanity) at the moment

yeah coz they all suck

yeh, i hear we're near peak sanity, demand has outstripped supply............peak intelligence occurred a few years ago now..........

We've only got the liberal government to blame for that

what, they drained all the intelligent from their obvious lack?

if the ovbious lack includes their voters n young liberals who encouraged the downturn in our education system....then yes lol

That's great news, synaptoman. How many are there of you?
Faye

Just the wife and I.

SM, if you decide to fly to Melbourne, try http://www.tigerairways.com/ they can be pretty cheap compared to some of the others (very no frills)

It would have been great if you'd been here in July

Or fly from Perth to Adelaide and hire a car from here for the drive east. That'll save you about 3 and a half days driving.