Well the Aussies have reclaimed the Ashes. We will now have 4 weeks of gloating to put up with until we escape to New Zealand. Pete headed down to the WACA first thing this morning, still hoping that a miricale could happen. I gave it an hour and a half, then decided I would go and join him as Flintoff and Peitersen were going well but by the time I reached the pub outside the ground four wickets had gone down. So I turned around and walked back to the hostel jus...

So here we are back in Perth. Today we dropped the van back off following over 4000 miles of driving, some unforseen detours and illegal off-road manouvers, the front headlight falling out completely on a perfectly straight section of road, breaking down due to battery failure and much more! We are planning the next few days to be relaxing after all that travelling around (as relaxing as watching england play cricket these days can be!). Last journal entry w...

Hello from denmark! Last time we updated this our car was in the garage back in busselton. Thankfully when we went back that afternoon they had fixed the problem and we were good to go. That afternoon we made our way to yallingup via the wicked ale brewery - complete with cheap beer tasting (including chilli beer!) and a round pool table! Yallingup is a surfers' coastal resort, and we arrived on the weekend of a national surf championship so the town was p...

So here we are, stranded in Busselton while a guy in a local garage is tinkering around with our naked lady who stopped functioning for us yesterday. We managed to break down right on the edge of australia, at the end of the road to Cape Naturaliste. I suppose it was a nice spot to spend a couple of hours, but it did mean that once the car had been started by the RAC man from cornwall we had to drive for 30 mins with no lights in the dark countryside, which was q...

So here we are again in coral bay. At the moment we were meant to be inland at Karijini national park. However as the park is on fire, and therefore closed, we decided not to go! After leaving coral bay a few days back we headed further north up the coast to Exmouth - the home of wild roaming emus and thousands of cockatoos. You might think that this would be nice, but when you are getting shouted at by locals for taking picures of the emus (as i did) and wh...