Bula 14/04/2010 We arrived in Fiji, The land of the giants (the local Fijians all seem to be flipping huge with enormous feet), Starting in Nadi the 2nd biggest town on the main island Viti levu for 5 nights, Its hot and humid and over 30 degree's, lovely!. At Mama's tropic of Capricorn hostel/hotel our host the lovely Mama, A 72 year old lady and larger than life personality, bra less with breasts sitting on her waist, met us with a big slobbery kiss, She is ...

Tena Koutou 01/04/2010 Back across the Cook straights on a smaller and older ferry to begin our tour of the North island, It started with a 10hr bus trip to Auckland for one night. The North island is totally different from the South, We now have volcano's rather than snow capped alps, The scenery which is still good but less dramatic, with cows instead of sheep on the rolling plains, Even the accent of the locals is different, its less pronounced. We are sti...

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...