Hello for the first time from South East Asia. I have escaped the intense heat and humidity outisde and dived into an air conditioned internet cafe to bring you up to date with an eventful last few days for me - a period where everything seemed to go wrong! The fun started on my final morning in Sydney, when I wandered everywhere looking for a post office that was open only to be frustrated as they're all closed on Saturday in Australia. I then got caught in an i...

Happy new year everyone and welcome to my final blog from Australia. I'm back where I started in Sydney having spent the last 6 weeks travelling all over this vast country. It will be weird to leave as 6 weeks is the longest I am spending in any single country on my travels, but I am excited and ready to head on up to South East Asia. My 8 hour Qantas flight to Singapore departs tomorrow afternoon, and after a very brief one night stay there I fly on up to Bangko...

Hello from Australia's capital city Canberra. I seem to have joined an elite and rare group of people by visiting the Capital Territory as it seems barely any Australians and ever fewer travellers make it here, despite the fact the city is just 3 hours south west of Sydney. Whenever I told an Aussie I had Canberra on my itinerary I got a very strange look, and it seems that the city is much maligned. Canberra, now with a population of 345,000, was purpose built i...

Hello from my new favourite Australian city, Melbourne, and welcome to my Christmas blog! I flew into here from Darwin on Christmas Eve on what was pretty much the only on time Jetstar flight leaving from there that day. The flight itself took 3 hours 45 minutes and was the comfiest flight I've ever had since I had the luxury legroom of an emergency exit row. Annoyingly though they ran out of TV sets for hire after about 6 rows so I had to make do with music for ...

Having left Kakadu we headed west in the direction of Litchfield National Park. To break up the journey we had a stop at the didgeridoo hut in the unusually named town of Humpty Doo. I got the opportunity to try and play a few, and it was certainly a lot harder than it looked. You have to ripple your lips and blow at the same time, and I only really mustered one note in numerous attempts. The Aboroginies play different notes using their throats, which really is r...