mandag, april 23

Har som optakt til Australien læst Long Drive

Sean & Davids Long Drive. Som ingen anden bog. Herlig underholdende og let læst bog om Sean & Davids tur gennem Australien. Med humor fortæller Sean Condon om turen, deres udfordringer og oplevelser. Ikke nogen helt almindelig guidebog eller rejsebeskrivelse. Bogen er udgivet på Lonely Planets Journeys, men Sean får aldrig lov til at skrive en traditionel guidebog for Lonely Planet. Bogen er alt andet end en ordinær guidebog. Læs den og vær klar til at rejse til Australien, så kan du altid bagefter tage fat i de kedelige rejsehåndbøger, når du vil vide, hvornår det og det museum i Sydney ikke har lukket.

Sean Condon: ”We made a left ar Erldunda. The world’s biggest rock is just 244 Ks away – but a short walk, considering how far we’ve already come today. (And we have travelled a really long way – almost an entire week of constant driving. The great big irony is that I’m just not all that interested in seeing Uluru anyway. I’m sure it’s impressive and spectacular and everything, but the fact remains it is just a big rock. But then again, if I think about what I’d otherwise be doing on a Tuesday afternoon, geological freaks become suddenly much more appealing.)”

Sean Condon: “Friday, Alice Springs.
There is no driving today. What a relief. My ass thanks me. Driving makes you crazy after a while – and as I’ve said, I don’t even drive. Even just thinking about what lies ahead upsets me – 500 Ks from here to Tennant Creek, a further 1000 Ks up to Darwin, turn around and head back to Tennant Creek, then all the way across to Townsville in Queensland, which is a whole other few thousand Ks again. I had mistakenly thought all the horror driving was behind us. What a chump. In the Outback (about seven-eights of the entire country) that sort of driving is never behind you.
Australia is too big.”

Long Drive = great book
Sean & David er et par neurotiske australiere med en dårlig attitude til livet som tager et ”road trip” gennem Australien. Du tager en blå 1966 Ford Falcon, to rigtige aussie-drenge, et utal af XXXX og lignende, et solbagt kontinent, en tur Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Mt. Isa, Cairns, Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay, Sydney, Canberra og Melbourne, så får du en ”long drive” og 286 sider australsk humor. Når du er færdig med bogen, er du klar til Australien og aussi humor.

Sean & Davids Long Drive er af den slags bøger du enten elsker eller hader.

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