Beyond Selidor

Thank you for the advice about places to visit! My partner and I were planning to go to the Peak District at one point, but unfortunately summer (when we have the most spare time) happens to be the time when we're both poorest (my student stipend runs out then, and my partner works in schools and as a university lecturer, so in the summer he's not getting paid much), and nothing came of it.

Now; to a native Southern Englander like myself, the concept of total removal from all signs of humanity is a bit on the scary side.

Oh, to be honest, it's a bit overwhelming to this Australian too. I'm a city-dweller at heart, and sometimes when I'm in a wild, isolated place, I get something that can only be described as vertigo. My smallness in the vast landscape is terrifying.

And considering that a large part of Australian literature is about unease in the land and strange, terrifying things going on in the Outback, I don't think I'm alone in those opinions.

But sometimes I just want to see the beach, the bush, the sky and the ocean and nothing else, you know?