Our trip to Thailand started off with a four hour plane delay on Christmas Eve (thanks Jetstar) followed by the worst plane trip either of us have ever had. It wasn't the weather conditions, but the people. So many children, and so little parenting. Plus, every second person was sneezing every two minutes and although I'd made us take Echinacea tablets before we left, there's been another outbreak of bird flu and I was feeling covered in germs. Daniel, saying tha...

I'd highly recommend any Aussie go to Bali. It is not at all what we thought it would be like. It's like another state of Australia, as in everything is so easy. We paid $200 a night in Seminyak (beach, not horribly cheap and busy like Kuta though) at Bali Rich Villas for our pool villa (you can get much cheaper even with private pools but we did have a great service) but you get a fantastic breakfast included and all waters, toothbrushes etc and the villa was hu...