Cairns...hmmm, it's difficult to take to a place when you turn up to the worst floods recorded in the last 40 years. There is nothing you can do but wait for the rain to pass and hope you can get out of the place as soon as possible. The weather was so bad that we never thought we would be able to visit the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and this was the main reason we had gone there. Gutting, I'm sure you will agree. Our plan then was to leave this place and head furt...

Flying over central Australia is something that I will never forget. For as far as you could see there was nothing but red sands and "bush". It was beautiful. I could see Alice Springs ahead and it was literally a small little town in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothingness. As soon as we stepped off the plane you could feel the heat but it was different to what we experienced in Darwin. It was really, really hot but there was no humidity at al...

Darwin, our first port of call in Australia and where we were to catch our connecting flight to Alice Spings. Because of this we were only here for 24 hours. Once we got inside the airport terminal we were greeted by customs who ask you if you have certain things in your bag...wood, carved items and any food items being some of them. I stated that I had nothing of the sort in my bag, as did Barry and proceeded through the gates. Had I realised that we were about...

Singapore in 24 hours! We stayed here waiting for our connecting flight to Australia. We arrived quite late at night and spent the night looking around for the hotel that invented the Singapore Sling cocktail. We went to the marina and saw all the big tall buildings all around. It was a pretty cool place by night as the lights all reflected off the water and it looked very pretty. We finally found the famous cocktail hotel, Raffles. It looked pretty grand and was...

Kuala Lumpur in 24 hours, whistle stop tour of the main attractions and dinner in the red light distict of Malaysia's capital city. The first thing that struck you about Malaysia was the incredible height of all of the buildings, followed by the strength of the heat as we were getting closer to the equator. I really enjoyed our tme here. It was mainly to do with what an interesting city it is but also a little to do with the fact that we got upgraded to a suite w...