Aladdin was one of my land ladies favourite hobbies.

Those land-ladies ehh !!

Sounds strangely like a film I watched in the 90's...

Mad Max Meets Malik Mohammed the Muleteer?

or

The Piano Player?

(The Piano)

Holly Hunter... is... The Road Warrior...

I gave up my cave in Gondwanaland on the promise of moving to the new world for fun, excitement and wild times ........ still waiting.

Ummm gondwanaland and the subsequent great land of down under aka Oz the superior is already part of the new world - those dam_n French and German caves with their draughty layout is definitely old world - nice ambience but very dated compared to the modern bungalow cave to be found in places like Coober Pedy

I haven't stayed in this one but have in a couple of others around town

CB

I suppose that Coober Pedy would have made a good name for Pattaya.

This is the type of country where I grew up - 89,643 acres of saltbush and bluebush.

Beautiful but very harsh country. One of my forebears was an Afghan cameleer (actually from Rajastan but whatever) and his photograph is on the walls of the Innamincka pub - he took a full size grand piano from Pt Adelaide to Innamincka on the back of a bull camel.

CB

My first wife's great uncles were camel train operators up around Tibooburra and Hungerford. Their name was Somerfield and they later moved to Alice Springs.

One sired two half Aboriginal children and brought them back to the family home in Mount Gambier and had them educated in Catholic Schools with spectacular lack of success.

They took a large number of photos, this was back in the 1920s, many including photos of tribal initiation ceremonies. The younger brother lent them to the South Australia Museum and his widow tried to get them back before she died about 15 years ago. They told her to get stuffed, they were too important to be in a private collection.