Road trip continued: Rainbow Beach to Cairns (the photo is of the beautiful Fraser Islamd) Day 9 After another night in the van at the hostel in Rainbow Beach, we said our goodbyes to the rest of our Fraser Island group and set off on a long drive. The only interesting part of the day was when we stopped for lunch and I went to a public toilet. I flushed the toilet and a massive green tree frog was flushed out! I couldn't quite believe my eyes, I'm not sure wh...

Sydney to Fraser Blog Day 1 Picking up our van in Sydney was hard work. We had to get 2 trains and 2 buses to the company which they had failed to warn us about! It took us 4 hours to get there and drive back to our hostel to pick up all of our things so we were rushed, stressed and had lost a lot of time. Because of this we decided not to do a few stops just outside of Sydney and drove as far as we could before it was time to pull in and we found a rest stop b...

After finally finding a hostel in Sydney, where we had to take a private room for the first night (our only non-dorm since Indonesia) we decided to make the most of it so ordered a big pizza and a couple of bottles of wine to watch tv with. On our first full day in Sydney it was back to the dorms and we were desperate to see the iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge in the baking 37oc heat. En route we were distracted by the famous Harry's Cafe De Wheels which s...

Melbourne to Sydney Day 1 Picking up our car wasn't as easy as we planned, just like when we picked the van up in Darwin. The car didn't come with any extras so we needed to buy roll mats for the tent (we had mattresses in the van last time), a stove, frying pan, cutlery and plates plus we needed to visit the local market to stock up on vegetables. Directing ourselves around the city to find these things, along with the differences of driving with trams (to tu...

So, after my last blog we headed to the Halloween party in Adelaide on the Saturday night. We drank a little too much, made friends with a lovely Japanese girl, watched the football and I won a dancing competition. Yes, that's correct. I got in the last 4 of musical chairs and those 4 of us had to take it in turns to dance on the pool table for 40 seconds. I needed to down a punch to be able to do it but it seemed to work. I won a day trip to the nearby Kangaroo ...