When the car’s front tyre burst, I thought events could get no worse.
Things had looked ominous as our plane landed at Alice Springs, and we were handed umbrellas for the short walk to the terminal building. We had arrived at the driest part of the continent and it was pouring with rain. The problem was that three tropical storms were fighting it out in the Indian Ocean, and had sent a side-swipe across the northwestern corner of Australia.
Alice Springs is a long way from anywhere else. It h