Great Aussie Roads We set off from Melbourne on a Monday having picked up our new Campervan - Chubby 'Sandy' Sandman (no we don't name them, they come like that). Sandy is a 2.4ltr Mitsubishi van with a small 'kitchen' at the back and bench seats that convert to a double bed in the back. To be honest, we have only once used the bench seat configuration and it was a right faff and Josh was too tall to be comfortable! We battled out of Melbourne which is a chao...

F1 blog. An international Grand Prix was something we factored into our trip very early on. In fact, large chunks of the trip were fitted snuggly around being in Melbourne for a certain weekend. Obviously, we were extremely excited, but as it was the start of the season there was a huge amount of unknown surrounding the weekend. Who would be quick, which cars would look the best and would Anna get over the fact that Schumi wasn't going to be there this year? Un...

This is just about Melbourne, not the F1, which will be a separate blog. Our apologies for not writing sooner, we have both been very tired in the evenings and have not felt very motivated to write because of busy, action-packed days. The train from Melbourne was very relaxing and enjoyable. We had an early start to get to the station but from there on it was very easy going. The passengers were mostly either elderly or backpackers and the seats were comfy wit...

We arrived in Adelaide late around 9pm on Friday night to unexpectedly find that it was Labour Day weekend and the Adelaide Festival (think antipodean Edinburgh Festival) so things in town were rather busy. We attempted to find somewhere for dinner but were left with only fast food joints to choose from as it was quite late once we'd been to the hostel and found our beds. We found a Mexican place doing tacos and burritos and grabbed some fries from Macca's, not...

The last few days in Perth have flown by. We've been on visits to Fremantle (or 'Freo' as the locals call it) where we had a good walk around the markets with Pam. We had a picnic in the park and introduced Pam to tuna and sweetcorn sandwiches (she seemed to really like them!!) and then went for a refreshing beer at the Little Creature brewery which was pretty cool. The beer garden overlooked the marina and a small galleon-type boat. Josh had a pale ale, Pam ha...