Selamat tengah hari (Good day!) from Kuala Lumpur. So, after departing Singapore at 6am we arrived in the Malaysian capital at around 8:30 local time and somehow managed to stumble onto a bus headed to the city centre. We were dropped off in a bustling square in the centre of the golden triangle area of the city, filled with huge electronic billboards with absolutely no idea where our hostel of choice (the Paradiso) was. With our huge (and expanding) ruck sacks ...

Well, this is strange. Almost forgot what it feels like to write a blog for you all! As I write this we are now in South East Asia, a first for us both and an extremely different experience in comparison with everywhere either of us have been up to now. So, back to the beginning… On the 20/10 (Tuesday) we said our goodbyes to Palmer, Louise and a few of the other residents of Castaways backpackers in Cairns, exchanging warm embraces and heading off to catch ...

Good afternoon all and welcome back! It’s been a good few months since our last update (apologies) so as ever there’s plenty to catch you up on. As I write this we’re in Cairns ahead of our flight to Singapore next Wednesday (which has come around seriously fast) but ill try and start where we left off last time. We ended up working on the Twist strawberry farm for two months in total. There were rumours flying around every day that “the farm was finish...

G’day all, how ya goin? Its been a good while since our last update so theres a fair bit to catch you up on. As we left off in our last blog we were due to imminantly start work on the local strawberry farm and were (shockingly) looking forward to doing so. Well, you’ll be pleased to hear that we are now professional strawberry pickers (and packers in Aimees case). We now know precisely how a strawberry is to be picked, what a ‘runner’ is, how the ‘sp...

The story so far is…. The morning we were due to depart from mooloolaba we were up early in order to pack up (again!) and moved on to Maroochydore where we hope to be spending the next three months working. Can you believe that, we actually hope to work!! Crazy stuff! Anyway, time again to tackle the public transport in the form of a bus towards Maroochydore, however this time we were not only weighed down with backpacks but also the two ’bags for life’ we...