We arrived on the Oz bus at Kroombit cattle station where there is a compulsory overnight stop but I was glad of it after over 10 hours of driving - Australia appears to be rather large.... We were staying in little log cabins that reminded me of little house on the prairie. The place is a working cattle station but they supplement the business with some tourism and appeared pretty well set up for us. We had to do face paint on each other (bit strange but there...

After a pretty chilly flight to Cairns in the early morning and pretty much no sleep, Roser and I, both being disorganised, caught the shuttle to the Esplanade and started looking for hostels. We bumped into a german girl who was trying to get out of her hostel early and she gave us a good deal on accommodation so we just took that to save hassle. It was raining lots in Cairns and pretty chilly after Darwin and I only had 2 days there before jumping on the Oz Ex...

So before I even left the plan changed again... Borneo was cancelled and instead I get to spend two months trying not to be eaten in Papua New Guinea - should be fun! The trail we're working on is described by the lonely planet as "suitable only for masochists and Israeli paratroopers" and since I'm not the latter I guess I'm option A! Trip got off to a great start after a strange check in process at Heathrow that left me with an upgrade to "premi...