Boarding now… the bus to Sydney

The world’s longest “regular” bus journey was launched yesterday, leaving London on the 15,000-mile (24140 kilometres), 84-day trip to Australia.

For some of the 38 travellers watching their last London sunrise for months, the OzBus offers the long and scenic way home; for others, a spectacular beginning to a career break. But as the pioneering passengers stood waiting yesterday to board for the world’s longest bus ride, one phrase kept being repeated: “The trip of a lifetime”.

Each of the passengers has paid £3,750 for accommodation, most meals and transportation – though the hop between Bali and Darwin in northern Australia will cost them another £175; the bus is to be shipped by cargo vessel, while the passengers fly.

The route from London to Sydney passes through some unforgettable locations

It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender.Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast.

Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards’ centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales.

One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away.

A little list of favourites, updated when I feel like it

• If silence is gold, no wonder women like diamonds…
• That’s not a bug, thats an unexpected feature…
• Additionally, me having four ex wives and many children of a young age, requires me to maintain a very productive work ethic!!! (Taken from a real job application I reviewed today, 10th May 07)

I’ve been looking into this “new” thing called blog for a while now and haven’t really seen the point of having one since I’m already running a website of my own. BUT (there’s always a but isn’t it…) lately as the site has grown and the content seams to be targeted towards a specific group of people (webmasters) I feel that there’s things I want to write that makes no sense whatsoever on a commercial level. Therefore after much (a huge bunch actually) consideration I’ve decided to create my own blog in order to express personal views on life as I stumble through it.

The opinions and views are of personal nature and should be treated that way. I may change my mind multiple times as I grow from experience. If you for some reason feel the urge of commenting any of my posts please try to be as objective as I’m subjective

This is however not the place to make notes, questions and / or requests related to the material found at the mother-site. This will most likely be ignored and definitely not given any serious attention. Need support? Go see the forum…