0610: Old Holland gets in her first compliant of the day about the previous nights snoring. Today is mainly a driving day. The re-appearance of the phantom guffer is therefore most unwelcome. Germany opens the front window and declares "someone is releasing bad air". Late afternnon: arrive at campsite with lovely cool pool. Ireland and England are so crazy that they decide to jump into the pool without even taking their clothes of first. Germany is u...

Pleasant walk up Frenchmans Creek in morning. Our guide tells us the walk will take about 2hrs as a round trip. We are at the top in 25mins. Germany states 'but it only took us 25 minutes to get to the top! Zis is supposed to be a 2hr walk!" Japan declares the walk "brilliant! is very good!" Ireland, Engalnd Australia and Holland all re-stock on booze. Spend some time on a brilliant beach, sunbathing, frolicking in the water, snorkelling etc. ...

Arrive mid-afternoon at beautiful WA coastline. Most of the young folk are larking about in the water, whilst others head for a walk (note that Australia and some of England count as 'not young' for the purposes of this exercise). Japan declares that the walk is 'brilliant! very good!". Germany declares that those who have stayed behind are 'zery lazy'. Evening camp dinner: the guides invite the girls forward to eat first. Germany is un...

On this site we don't believe in stereotyping nationalities. It's lazy, and it's wrong. But it's funny. And if you go on an 8 day tour and people (broadly) follow these stereotypes, then we believe it can possibly make for amusing reading... Cast: England (Dave, Nicky from Bristol), Australia (A-M), Ireland (Bridgid), Germany (Alex), Switzerland (Corinna), Belgium (Christine), Old Dutch woman (Hetty), Young Dutch (Josie), Japan (Kossy) 0630 star...

Moved up to Perth in anticipation of our trip to Adelaide the following day. Met up with angie (ex LU) and had an enjoyable mini tour of Perth's waterign holes. The beer garden of 'Brisbane' was the highlight as it was a superb location for watching all the beautiful people trying very hard to be their coolest. We are lightweights these days so had to duck out after a poor showing of 5 hours. Found a good local vietnamese which bizarrely had George an...