Tena Koutou 16/03/2010 Our short 3hr hop across the Tasman sea bought us to windy Wellington, On the north island of New Zealand, After 2 dog searches, X-rays, and no forwarding ticket documentation questioning they finally allowed us in. A 16 degree drop in temperature greeted us, as a biting wind drove up the Cook straights (What a culture shock, bloody freezing), We put on our warmest clothes even with our rain mac,s over the top, and lent head first into t...

Gday We hired a Nissan C11 from Peter Pan Backpackers agents, Who we have found all over Australia to be able to hire, arrange trips or tours with huge discounts below a parent companies own prices, Thrifty who we got the car from wanted £70 Per Day we paid £25 Per Day, same company, same car (Big difference). On Thursday 25/02/2010 we started our 4 day Great Ocean road trip (one of the top scenic drives in Australia), 660miles from Melbourne to Adelaide fol...

Gday 15/02/2010 thankfully left the flies and the Alice Springs fly swat wave behind as we arrived in Sydney, The price's for accommodation are high due to an AC/DC concert (they are a big band down under) the Chinese new year and the gay Mardi Gras festival (starting on 20th), The weather is a fair bit cooler at 29 degrees. On Tuesday we met Ed & Nicky (who used to work at Uncle toms cabin, Cookham) they have been out here 6 years now, They took us on a t...

Gday cobbers 03/02/2010 Perth, Western Australia, Gods country, the land where the sun always shines and the premier race play. We stayed our first 3 nights in the Billabong backpackers, a clean, tidy and young hostel, I must have been 30 years the senior of most, It had a communal kitchen where you just helped yourself at breakfast from washing basket size tubs of cereals, Its painful watching some who have only just flown the nest, I had to teach one poor t...

Selamat tengah bari 20/01/2010 We flew Air Asia again (they are so cheap) to Indonesia and the island of Bali, We had to stop over in Singapore for a couple of hours so we treated ourselves to a Burger king, bloody lovely after rice and noodles for weeks. We are staying in the surfing Mecca of Kuta. Our hotel the Mastapa gardens is a bit tired but at £17 PN with TV, AC and a cooked breakfast is absolutely fine.. Kuta is a bit of a here we go sort of place, fu...