Memoirs of the first days in Darwin

We wrote this a few days ago, but havnt had time (lazyness) to post it until now. But the pictures are from the last two weeks.
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We finally arrived in Darwin! City that was bombed 62 times during the second World World, was torn to the ground by a cyclone in the 60s (we think), and today is ugly architecture and tourit party haven. Not very budget-conscious-friendly. But luckily our budget consciousness had a big shift this morning. We sold our faithful car! for the worthy sum of 1300 dollars. But the guy had a limit on his bank card, so he's gonna transfer the last 300 to our bank account tomorrow morning....mmmm....are we too trusting? well, the fact is we were pretty happy to get away with one thousand dollars...not only were both back wheels making their usual nasty noises, but as we were driving the guy to the ATM, a new high pitched screechy noise was born to life from underneath the car, making the two of us sweat much more than the morning heat would have accounted for. Sweating more or less the amount we usually sweat in the afternoon, when temperature rises to 35°C and you can feel the amazing australian sun burning your skin within 3 seconds. After 1 week in the desert we were very happy to come back to civilisation, not for the people so much as the electricity, showers (very VERY rare for us) and most importantly a FRIDGE!!!! You should have seen us today, along with our 1000$ to spend on food we also had a fridge to store it in, so we were walking around the supermarket buying basically everything that we havnt had for 3months... yogurt, 3 different types of meat, brie, milk, juice, eggs... I could go on and on, we were so excited, we were like 2 kids in toystore with a HUGE budget!!! AHHHHHHH and tonight we are making RAGU (spaghetti bolognese to all non italians) and we have basically been sitting around all day, since lunch (pasta with egg and zucchini) waiting to be hungry again for dinner. The hostel we're gonna be staying in for the week is a bit too much for us, used to sitting next to each other in the silent night by the car and the campfire listening to the dingos howling far away in the desert, but it'll probably be alright, after we get used to the constant loud music and the sunbathing tattooed crowd of the only common area of the place: the open air bar-swimming pool-night club.

Update: we met Debbie, from Sydney and had some great ragu together. We have been doing very little for the past week, and are starting to love it. The guy still hasnt transfered the other 200 dollars, but I believe in him (but I dont believe in the car, maybe it broke down already and thats why he wont send the money).

So far we are making lots of lists of things we have to do before leaving... but we dont seem to get round to them... we just eat, plan the next meal, and then wait non too patiently until we are hungry again. We have also found out that the cinema is free (if you look nonchalant enough) so we are watching crap action movies every night.

Wednesday we leave for Singapore.
Friday we fly to Kuala lumpur and from there to Rome
Saturday 6am Roma international airport fiumicino (airmalaysia, if anyone feels inspired to come get us). Otherwise San Casciano around lunchtime (house calls after lunch please as we want to enjoy a LOVELY Galgani lunch!!!!! let's say call after the simpsons, if they are still on anyway)

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Before and after dusk. Find the Southern cross win a mappamondo



Our slice of paradise


The wonders of crabs


now that we are safe we can show you these



Future roadkill


some towns had a lot to give -the cathedral fig tree. find Yvonne.


Not many things to take photos in the last days (this is the national highway)


see above

see above above

Now guess what these are


views in Kakadu National Park

This was being done there for the last 50'000 years: vandalism!