Having completed our trip the final hurdle was to sell our four-wheel drive car. In many ways I was looking forward to the challenge because when I was younger I'd helped my dad sell various cars and he taught me all the tips and tricks. I'd also done loads of research before the journey. The main difficultly was the distortions of the backpacker market in which we'd be selling - such as dealing with young inexperienced buyers, Australia's complicated buyer/s...

Most of our blogs have concerned the things we have seen or done, but in the past couple of weeks we have done very little apart from working hard to sell the car. Katy is writing about that separately, so what does that leave me? Just a couple of anecdotes and the opportunity to write about other people, including another opportunity to rant about scummy backpackers! Back in Sydney, we stayed once again at the Sheralee camp site in the suburb of Rockdale, where...

We missed out on Brisbane back in June because the weather was so bad we sidestepped it during our inland dash north to avoid the rain. It was the only state capital we hadn't visited, however, so we felt duty-bound to see what it had to offer. Being honest, we would have to say that Brisbane is our least favourite of Australia's big cities. It's not that there's anything particularly wrong with it, but there's no 'wow' factor to give it any kind of edge. Like ...

There is a phenomenon in Australia called "Schoolies' Week", when school leavers descend in late November on Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. There, they celebrate their freedom and grown-up status by partying, getting drunk and generally behaving in a raucous and childish manner. They could not have picked a more suitable location. Surfers Paradise was on our original schedule of stops as we headed towards Brisbane, but we stayed an extra night in...

After Port Macquarie we decided to take the smaller coastal roads north rather than just use the main highway. This led to a rather random, but very pleasant overnight stop at Wooli. The grey clouds disappeared as we neared the coast, leaving us bathed in sunshine so we went for a walk on the beach. Wooli occupies a bay stretching far away to north and south; the waves pound the golden sand and there were few people to be seen. It would be a wonderful spot to sp...