Hi Everybody,

We (my Dad and I) were just arrived in Darwin after 4 hours flight from Singapore. We landed at 3:00 am in the morning. After clearing the immigration with success we were quite lucky on the arrival because once we went through the custom and the security check we found easily a perfect taxi Van for all our baggages especially for my cycling bag (29 kgs, height 1m, length 1,20m).

After sleeping almost 5 hours, we decided to walk through the streets of Darwin to discover the city.

Darwin sits at the end of the peninsula poking into the turquoise waters of Port Darwin. The main shopping, accommodation, wining and dining area is a compact grid along the parallel Mitchell, Smith and Cavenagh Streets. Darwin’s cosmopolitan mix - over 50 nationalities are seamlessly represented here and is typified by the wonderful Asian markets.

Near to the downtown and parallel with Esplanade street, we wente for a walk along the coast in Bicentennial Park. We were almost alone this morning to admire the nature and different kind of birds. The temperature at 11 am was around 35 C with 70% of humidity.

After 1h30, we went to a phone shop to buy a pre-paid phone card and a pre-paid Wireless Broadband to keep connect with you.

This afternoon we have enjoyed the pool of the hotel and enjoyed a late walk under a cloudy weather.  We went to Wharf Precinct, the billion dollar Darwin city waterfront. Some hotels, boutique restaurants and a wave pool are there. All are new as the inauguration was only a few months back. It’s well worth for a short but nice promenade.

This evening we went to Alaturka, a great Turkish restaurant. I was surprised to see so many people since this morning the streets seemed  to be empty.

Now it’s time to sleep to be in a good shape for tomorrow.

A busy day will wait us as we will pick up our Camping Car at 10 am. After this, we will plan to go to Woolworths supermaket to buy the needs (water, food...) and I hope some games as I forgot cards, scrabble...in Singapore.

At last I will set up my bike for saturday. It will take at least 1 hour. I will post tomorrow some pictures of the Camping Car and some of Darwin.

At the moment I feel good despite the fact that the temperature is quite high.

Good night !!!