This isn't a tale of heroic feats, it's about two lives running paralel for a while. The plan 5000 miles in 4 months; the goal: to explore a country they had only know in books; The method: improvisation.
The further they went, the more they could feel the world changing, or maybe it was them.
Let the World change You and You can change the World
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
o Primeiro/The first one
Ontem tivemos de ir tratar dos bilhetes, finalmente é uma realidade, e é oficial que os temos... entretanto aproveitei a oportunidade, para começar a experimentar o que poderá ser um tipo de formato para os videos na nossa viagem... é um teste e por isso espero as vossas opiniões. O que acham do formato, pronto o conteúdo... tirando-me a mim... há pouco mais, mas e o resto?
Yesterday we had to take care of the tickets, it's finnaly a reality, and it' official, we have them... in the meanwhile i took the chance, to start trying to experiment what it could be a format for our episodes in Australia. It's a test, and so I'm waiting for your opinion about it. What do you think about the format... for the content I realise, that besides me, there's not much more, but what about the rest?
Yesterday we had to take care of the tickets, it's finnaly a reality, and it' official, we have them... in the meanwhile i took the chance, to start trying to experiment what it could be a format for our episodes in Australia. It's a test, and so I'm waiting for your opinion about it. What do you think about the format... for the content I realise, that besides me, there's not much more, but what about the rest?
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Aborígenes/Aboriginal

O nativo australiano definitivo, o verdadeiro habitante daquele país, hoje representam apenas 1% da população australiana. Foram massacrados nos anos 60 pelos colonos ingleses e por essa razão a necessidade de refúgio no deserto ou Norte da Austrália, ambiente hostil a qualquer pele mais clara (convenhamos que os 50ºC não devem ser agradaveis) . Espiritualmente ligados à terra este povo foi perseguido e descriminado pelo povo colonizador durante muitos anos e só recentemente foram aprovadas leis de anti descriminação racial no país, onde direitos como o de voto foram cedidos ao povo (estamos a falar dos verdadeiros australianaos que lá vivem há tanto tempo como 25 mil anos) . Ainda assim, a maior parte desta reduzida população continua a viver isoladamente longe das cidades. Hoje além do atractivo turístico da região parecem-me um activo que devemos visitar, ver admirar... João este tem fotografia obrigatória pela expressão cultural.
The definitive australian, the true birth right inhabitant of that country. Today they only represent about 1% of the active australian population. They were massacred in the 60's by the british settlers, and because of that these people searched for refugee in the desert or in north Australia, hostil enviroment for any light skin (50ºC are probably not pleaseant). Spiritually connected to the earth, these people were persecuted and discriminated by the colonial british for many years and only recently, laws were aproved for anti discrimination in the country, where rights such as the one that grants you the power to vote (we are talking about the real australians,living there for probably 25 thousand years). Still, most of this small population continues to live in isolated ground away from the cities. In addition to being the tourist attraction of the region it seems to me that they must be an asset that we should visit... João has a photograph mark near it after all it is the true cultural expression of the region
Saber local procura-se/Local knowledge required

Precisa-se conhecimento de causa local. O preceito de um viajante é a experiência da viagem em si, por isso ter a dos outros tem de ser incontornavel se queremos escrever a nossa própria, achei interessante pedir aos demais leitores, que partilhem a sua própria aventura, não tem de ser sobre a Austrália mas uma que achem interessante. Utilizem o formulário do lado esquerdo em baixo, e enviem-nos a vossa história ou escrevam para aussietrav@gmail.com
Local knowledge needed. A traveller's precept is the experience of the travel itself, so to be able to have other's traveller's stories it's truly valuable, specially if we want to write one of our own.So I tought that I should ask the visitors to share their own adventure story here, it doesn't need to be about Australia, just an interessting one that you think fits here. Use the form on the left lower side or contact us thru aussietrav@gmail.com
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