Hello,I have now reached Darwin - the capital city of the Northern Territory, and am closer to Singapore than I am to Sydney, and the closest to home that I have been for a long time.I last updated this from Alice Springs, which by the way is not a very nice place, but rather scary even in the middle of the day and there is nothing there.We've driven north through the Devil's Marbles, where temperatures reached 49c!!  And through Kakadu National Park...

Hello all from Alice Springs,Since I last wrote from Adelaide, I've done quite a lot, namely a lot of hikes at Uluru, The Olgas and Kings Canyon. but today is rest day and I'm in Alice Springs having a dose of civilisation before it's back to the outback again until Darwin.It's also been very hot - far too hot for me.  The Winchester office in summer doesn't even come close - my thermometer was reading 44c the other day!!  And the fl...