After spending 6 weeks with James and Dave it was time to leave my fellow intrepid explorers for a week as I made my way up to the Red Centre and Alice Springs. On arrival I made my way to the bright lights of Alice Springs town centre to see what it had to offer. I found a rather depresing and intimidating town centre, with a clear divide between the local Aboriginals and visiting tourists. The streets were lined with groups of aboriginees that in the absence of...

With our Asian adventure at an end, we headed to the home of Neighbours, Melbourne. Feeling a sense of betrayal, we left the likeable but less than punctual Air Asia behind in favour of a Qantas A380 air juggernaut. Although distraught to leave behind such a loyal companion, we quickly adapted to our new surroundings which included double legroom and a 10 inch touch screen entertainment centre, featuring a compendium of films, tv shows, games and music. Another a...

Following a week on remote desert islands, it was time to fly to the bustling city of Kuala Lumpur with our favorite no frills airline, Air Asia. After an adequate 2 hour flight on the only plane at Krabi airport, we touched town in KL. On arrival to the airport and after 4 and a half weeks of fasting we finally succumed to the golden arches and had our first glorious McDonalds of the trip. Disappointingly we only managed to equal our 7 value meal collaborative r...

As free internet has become something of a luxury since leaving Hanoi we have a lot to cover in this latest blog entry. So in order to stave off the possibility of this sending you into a deep sleep we suggest a large caffine based drink to help you reach the end of this latest blog...... We start our round up from where we began our trip all those weeks ago. After 5 days in Hanoi, we flew back to Bangkok on Asia's own version of Easy Jet, Air Asia. Despite a to...

After 3 days in Nha Trang and nursing our sunburnt skin, it was time to move north to Hoi An. Following our unpleasant bus trip to Nha Trang we decided to take what we thought would be the more comfortable option of a sleeper bus. As we boarded the bus we were confronted by rows of coffin like bunk beds with only enough leg room to satisfy local stature. Following the most uncomfortable nights 'sleep' of our lives we arrived in Hoi An at 5.30 am. As we were unab...