We left Surfers Paradise on Friday 26th June after hearing on the radio while in the shower that Michael Jackson had died! What a shocker that was and such a shame. It'll be another one of those moments people will talk about where they say "I remember where I was when I heard Michael Jackson had died". RIP Michael.On the way up to Beerwah we drove over to Pacific Pines which is a residential area on the Gold Coast where a lot of expats live so we co...

Well our travels around Oz have well and truly begun now as we are now living in our camper!!We picked the camper up on Friday 19th June, and although it took the sales guy nearly 1.5hrs to fill out all the Queensland vehicle sale papers (no simple V5 document here), and then realizing the battery was dead, we were finally able to get on our way! We'd decided that for our first stop we would go down to the Gold Coast, so we booked ourselves into the Main Beach T...

Em had the best day ever on Sunday 14th as we went to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. They have 130 Northern and Southern Koala's at the centre plus lots of other animals such as Kangaroo's, Wombats, Tasmanian Devils and lots of birds. But the main attraction is without doubt the Koala's, and crikey what an attraction they are!As we got there just after it opened so we could cram in the whole day, it was nice and quiet when we arrived. Em bless her couldn't wait to...

OK so we've in Brisbane just over a week and have done quite a lot so far so here is a glimpse of what we've been up to.Moved apartments! We'd booked ourselves into the Spring Hill Garden Apartments for 2 weeks as these came highly recommended by people on the British Expats website, however to put it bluntly they were grim. They were worn out, filthy dirty, stains everywhere and towards the end of our stay, chucking out yellow water and had a kitchen infested ...

G'Day!Its taken 12,000 miles and 28 hours of flying and 2 years of planning but we're finally here, down under in sunny Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA! CRIKEY!We arrived in Brisbane on Wednesday 3rd June after a very quick 3 hour flight from Auckland, and although we were sad to leave New Zealand as we both really liked it there, we were still super excited to finally be coming to Oz. It feels like we have been looking forward to this for ages as we started ou...