Our journey down the East Coast, the most travelled of all backpacker routes, started way up t'north in Cairns. We flew in at 1am so decided it wasn't worth wasting precious money for accommodation so kipped at the airport. After a few hours of back-breaking sleep, Lau had turned blue and was shivering due to the artic air-con conditions, so we went outside to warm up - and my it was hot?. damn hot.We checked in, had a few more hours of sleep, good sleep and wand...

Arriving in Melbourne at 11pm in the evening didnt leave much time for anything apart from a taxi ride, checking into a hostel in St Kilda and a quick beer, well it would habe been rude not to, the hostel had a bar! Waking up early to explore the next day and check out if Melbourne really had become as swiming obsessed as we hoped it would we knew we were in the right place when phil spotted the Hungarian waterpolo team (2x Olympic and World champs) lapping up t...

NZ South Island Part 2! The next day involved ice, literally shed loads of it. We were booked on a day all action glacier trek. Franz Joesf was its name, and my she was a beast. As everyone knows, ice is pretty cold, freezing in fact, so we would need our thermal underwear.... thermies are gay and we didnt have any so we just wore all the clothes we had. This was a bad call, we looked ridiculously and ridiculously stupid. The rest of the trek people just had sho...

And so it has come time again to pack up far too many accumulated clothes into those stupidly small backpacks and head to the airport! Just as we were starting to become pro beach bums and perfect our aussie accents, our time in Sydney was up. We lived in a luxury apartment in Darling Harbour for 3 months and another 6 weeks at the world famous Bondi beach sharing a house with 3 fellow brummie girls. Not a bad way to experience living abroad! While Laura has ear...

New Zealand South Island (Part 1), So, we set sail. We were all excited about getting to the south island..... well Lau and Kate were asleep, while Phil, with some good sleep walking action, drove the camper onto the ferry. A world renowned ferry crossing, some of the best picturesque scenery in the world - we did the crossing in the pitch black!! Determined not to missthe landscape we drove as far out onto the Marlborough sounds as we could ready for the sunri...