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Once again up at 6 am and exit Adelaide. On Greyhound Pioneer to Broken Hill. Broken Hill is "far out", desert - more desert - and plenty of dead kangaroos on the road, all hit by the trucks and cars. There are hours between the towns. The last one before we reach Broken Hill is not that big - 7 people live there. One get of the bus there - "now we are 8" he says.

The trip is annoying . A mother and her 4 extremely badly behaving kids makes everything possible to make as much noice and trouble as they are able to.

Broken Hill in the afternoon. VERY hot out her. Checking in on Mario's Palace Hotel - the most fancy hotel on this trip. The lobby is something special with huge wallpaintings all over. The rooms are real nice - and it seems like there's noone else at the hotel.

Checking out the city, into a pizza-hut - and back to sleep.

Halfday-trip to Silverton, some kind of ghosttown 20 miles from Broken Hill. Very much the outback. This is a new record - we are only 3 on the bus today. I Silverton we are taken to some local galleries, meet some con-man who has made a living out of cutting the kangaroo out of old 1-cent coins, and sell them to the stupid tourists. We end up in Silverton hotel - and it's time for a VB. (Victoria Bitter - their local beer - and a very good one)

Severel films - and especially commercieals - have been shot in Silverton. You know, those with beers, thirsty men - and far away from everything.

Monday 16'th

In the morning I was going mining in Broken Hill. Ray - the tour guide - was speaking so incredably fast that it was very hard to follow. But fun and exiting anyway to walk around underground with a hard-hat. The mine was a metal mine where they used to find silver, zink and other metals.

In the afternoon I was leaving Broken Hill on Greyhound Pioneer back to Sydney. The trip would take 15 hours - but there was plenty of room in the bus.

Back to Sydney