G'day, How you going? When I left the first postcard from Cairns, I did'nt have much choice for photos and really wasn't expecting to see a beach like this one for some time. However as Nat and I now have our van (called violet) we headed up to Cape Tribulation on Thursday, which was beautiful. Stayed in a van park just 10 secs from the beach, and found our first coconut. Tryed to shell it on one of the spikes at the site but without success. Rainned again that...

Hello. Just to let you know we ave been in Cairns for a couple of days now, staying at The Calypso Inn Backpackers Hostel, which isn't too bad. It's quite lively not sure if thats a good or bad thing, at least it is clean and has everything we need. Hoping to get a van soon, we are just getting it checked over at the garage as I write. Will cost just less than 500 pound each, but it is going to save us so much in hostel and coach fees. Cairns is pleasant, the r...

Hello just to let you know we have arrived safe and sound in Cairns. Will update this site properly once I have abit more spare time, sorry to be vague. Love Nikki

So have arrived in our final destination on the tour. Staying in a hostel called the Hangout Hotel, which is really clean and modern, quite typical for Singapore. It looks like everything here has been brought from Ikea. (John, Adam and Paul I was considering nicking some stuff for the flat, it would fit in brill, but don't think it will fit in my backpack, soz!) Went to The Night Safari, which was quite good and although the animals appeared to have realistic ha...

Hi, So since leaving Krabi, we then headed south to Penang, which to be honest I wasn't all that impressed with, but then it did have alot to live up too. No beaches here! The hotel was fairly basic but was all that we needed. Went up Penang Hill on a very steep hill train, where the view was stunning from the top, and saw lots of monkeys. (No, not Natalie!) We then had a photo taken of us flying on a magic carpet soaring over Penang harbour, one of those thing...