By the time we came to the end of our stay in the rainforest at Cape Tribulation, Eloise and I had exhausted most of the plans we'd had for Australia. Back when we were sitting at a table in a dirty corner of a local pub in north London and planning this trip, my suggestion that we should spend at least a month in Australia had initially been greeted by Eloise with extreme doubt. Having never been to the continent before and not really knowing how much of eve...

Learning from our previous misadventures trying to find somewhere to stay in Surfers Paradise, Eloise and I had phoned ahead and booked a motel room for our short stopover in Cairns. I had already booked what I hoped would be a romantic retreat in the rainforest at Cape Tribulation for the next few days, but we were a day early arriving in northern Queensland and the courtesy bus from the rainforest resort wouldn't be arriving to collect us until the next day - s...