I can say I was quite happy to leave Adelaide and move on, frankly the city was boring and Laura and I were glad it was a short stop. Even the girl on the reception desk commented on the lack of anything. Before our flight we visited a mall that was one of the top attractions...it was just a mall. Moving on to Melbourne was exciting, one of the two main citys of Australia. A far cry from the smaller cities with less of the country bumkin feel. The flight was un...

Adelaide has a few main sites...The zoo with the panda (saw pandas in China), the Central markets (visited them yesterday) and the beach (soon to be traveling to the east coast for the best beaches). So we found there was not much to do but we did discover Adelaide rents bikes free of charge, and as we both love cycling this seemed an ideal way to see the city. We collected our single speed retro bikes and headed to the centre of Adelaide to visit the museum, th...

Arriving in Adelaide was fairly standard apart from the sadist train driver, he seemed to turn Chinese. Traveling at break neck speed scaring the holy hell out of us, leading to a disturbed sleep. All in the interest of getting us there on time. On second thoughts arriving on time is not like the Chinese so he must have been half Chinese half Aussie. After collecting our bags and saying goodbye to our new found friends we found the first open WiFi we could in the...

Now this blog will cover the days on the train. Day 1 - We had both been looking forward to today, a chance to put our feet up and watch the scenery go by...it was train day! We took a taxi from the hostel to the station and checked in our larger rucksacks. After a small wait we were asked to proceed to our carriage where we would be shown our cabin. Brody was our carriage supervisor and she showed us the cabin and said they would prepare the beds at dinner and ...

Our last day in Perth was probably one of my favourite of the trip so far. We started by taking our box from yesterday for another walk but this time full of souvenirs. We arrived at the post office to find it was shut, much like the Australian close at 5 rule it appears opening on weekends is a problem too. So we were left with no other option than to walk our souvinier filled box back in hope we had time after the train to post it. After our town walk in the ...