So Phoebe has now returned to Guernsey and its my last day in the land down under! I arrive in Singapore tonight before jumping on a plane to Bangkok the day after! Australia has been awesome and I know I still have to write about the highlights-Byron Bay, staying in the rainforest, fraser island, whitsundays, the barrier reef and white water rafting the tulley river have all been incredible! So I am full of nostaklgic thoughts as I board the bus to the airport b...

Touching down into the early morning sun of Australia phoebs and I prepared to part from each other…Ryan would be joining her here and not wanting to be a gooseberry I was staying elsewhere for the next 2 weeks! Our separation however was delayed somewhat on discovering that his flight had been cancelled and that he wouldn't be arriving until much later. This meant that our first day was spent mostly in the air conditioned arrivals terminal of Sydney airpor...

During my stay in Sydney I found some cheap flights down to Melbourne and seeing as I had relatives that lived there I decided to pop down for a few days. So after St Paddys day I packed a small bag and headed for the airport! I was greeted at the other end by my dads cousins Alan and Elisabeth who waited at the coach with a tiny Guernsey flag! That evening I caught up on the Australian side of the family's news and heard that I would be visiting them the followi...

So having gorged ourselves on chocolate phoebs went home for an early night and i found myself in another irish bar sadly bidding goodbye to the sweedish girls we'd made good friends with and observing the similarities between english and new zealand undergraduates...it seems drink is a crucial part of the curriculum all over the world! A friend of ours from england who we had ended up travelling with us for a bit was shocked to hear his name from the other end o...

Hey everyone we're so so sorry for the lack of blog action but theres just been sooo much to do! Thinking that pictures speak a thousand words i keep trying to load some of them up but i've just wasted an hour tryingv that and it won't work grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! So a brief summary in words will have to do: After leaving Auckland for trhe Bay of Island we passed briefly through Sheep World to a lovelky place called Pahia where we zoomed around the island on a 90kmph...