I'm in the wine growing capital of Australia! There is nothing here in Berri, but I'm having fun. I came up here a week ago to work as a fruit picker, but it rained for the first 3 days, which is a record for this place so only started on Wednesday. Picked grapes for 2 days and I was the mini bus driver to take all the people from my hostel (Berri Backpackers) to the farm each day as I'm a responsible person! So I worked for farmer Andrew for 2 days a...

Australia is great and I'm loving Adelaide. It's the fringe festival at the moment and loads going on - it was the opening night on the 8th and I went to a concert in one of the parks and met loads of the locals - really good atmosphere and lots of performances. The day before I'd been to a soccer match! It was Adelaide United versus Chowdong, the champions of China. It was the equivalent of the Champions League and Chowdong are the Chelsea of China, ...

As I'm planning now to stay in Adelaide for a bit longer I thought I'd head up to Sydney to see a few people I met on my travels while I'm not working. Still waiting for my tax number to come through and had no luck working yet, so I thought head up while I've not got much on and I did! So I went for four days - Wednesday to Sat and had a really good time. The weather was good to start with and arriving I went to see Sydney Harbour and the Opera H...

Arrived at Adelaide on the 20th Feb and been here for a few days already. Had 2 BBQ's, a tour of the city, been wine tasting, and cut my hair - so all going well!  Staying with my cousin Gen at the moment and she's looking after me well - making sure I shower, brush my teeth and all the other things I'd have problems remembering! Off to the Desperate Dateless Dance tonight - a fancy do I believe. Think I'll stay round for a while, but do need...

Melaka:  After leaving KL I stopped off in a place called Melaka, which is on the way to Singapore. "When I arrived, I asked about the bus to Singapore and they said there was no chance, as it's Chinese New Year and the 1st bus would be on the 20th which would be no good as my flight to Aus is on the 19th!! So I was a bit worried about that, so went out with a Kiwi fella from my dorm and had a few beers on the cheap. The next morning we both went to...