Hi everyone. Hope you're all OK. Thanks again for all of your birthday messages. x Moving on from Canberra, we arrived in Sydney mid-afternoon on the day before New Year's Eve. We checked into our room (the four of us were cosying up in a triple as the city is soooo expensive around new year) and headed down to the harbour to see what all the fuss was about.... we'd heard rumours of an opera house, a bridge, some pretty good views? Well, we weren't disappointed....

.......so after a count of 14 dead Kangaroo's, there was nearly a death of one or two humans during the journey up to Canberra from Melbourne. Allow me to elucidate: Following Canberra, we were due to drive onwards to Sydney in preparation for New Years Eve, and with Sydney being totally rammed on New Years Eve, including both viewing venues and accommodation close to the harbour, General Commander Lestuzzi had worked tirelessly to book us into a very central ho...

Regs everyone, thanks for the messages again, good to see some people staying strong - really enjoying the messages about how little time we have left, they're great! Cheers ;-) Nigel - what the hell is going on at the Theatre of Comedy? Where's the 140million treasure chest? Is the Dr too pre'occupied with his wife's impending court case to be bothered to chase europes finest? Pumpey get Defoe and we go for the muppet from Zimbabwe, Benjani!! - bring back Peter...

Hi everyone! Hope you're all well. Thanks for all of your emails and blog messages and text messages (and Jo and Molly, thanks for the lovely voicemail!). We are in New Zealand at the moment, in Auckland. We arrived on Sunday (27th) and are picking up our campervan today. I'm just telling you this as I think we may have confused everyone with where we are at the moment seeing as though we're so behind with our blog updates. We have already spent our 6 weeks in A...

Hi everyone, hope all is well. Before I crack on, can you do me a small favour - We think we might be missing a blog update from Cambodia - if you cannot see Belle's accounts of Phnom Penh (including our visit to the killing felds) please can you let us know and we'll re-post. Cheers Right then, on with the story: So with my metaphorical 'I'm a qualified scuba diver' cap, badge, t-shirt and rosette emblazoned on an already inflated head and chest, it ...