50 years ago Tony and Maureen Wheeler set off from Essex for Sydney with £400 and in a rather beaten up van. The van made it as far as Kabul and they eventually washed up on a beach in remote north west Australia, broke, hungry and exhausted after a sea voyage from Bali that went badly wrong. Working their way across the continent they made it to Sydney…
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