Hi We arrived in Alice Springs last tuesday to a sweltering 40 degrees. We spent the day looking around the town and went to a Reptile House to make ourselves aware of the local wildlife before we ventured out into the outback the following day. On Wednesday we were collected by our tour guide Juzzy at 6.15am and made our way across the outback which took 4 hours in a very hot bus! Our first stop was to The Olgas where we got a taste of how hot the outback can...

HiOn Friday we went from Sydney to The Blue Mountains by train which took about 2 hours.  We are staying in Katoomba which is a great place to explore The Blue Mountains, which gets its name from the blue haze that is given off from the ecalyptus trees which surround the area.We have spent the last couple of days exploring the mountains on foot and by 4x4 jeep.  Echo Point and Then Three sisters are the most famous of the mountain formations a...

Happy New Year!!  We hope you all had fun celbrating and was great to speak to some of you over christmas and new year!We arrived in Sydney last week and have been having a fantastic time.  Our hostel is great and gives us chance to cook instead of going out for meals all the time which is a very welcome relief.  The hostel is only about 20mins from the city so is perfect.Since we arrived we've been doing lots of sight seeing around the city an...

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you had a good day!Since we arrived last Wednesday we've been extremely busy, which is why we've not had time to update our journal!After the flight from Singapore to Melbourne on Wednesday we arrived at our guesthouse which is about 10 mins from the centre of Melbourne.  On Thursday we went to Melbourne Zoo which was fantastic and spent a couple of hours looking at the animals.  It was such a hot da...