New years eve started with taxi to Bondi Beach about 20 mins out of sydney, and got ourselves our first full English cooked breakfast and cup of tea even thou we were baking in the heat of 30 degrees ourselves. Bondi is a huge, long beach and was pretty packed and occupied by the young and trendies, lots of fitness fanatics, blokes posing with their surf board and me and dan getting more and more sunburnt by the minute! The sea was clear and turquoise but absolu...

What a great city!! Beautiful sunshine, great people, city so clean n not manic! We have done so much in the days here! Day 1 down at The Rocks area, taking in the Bridge, drinks n lunch by Opera House, n then just as Bex was relaxing into her day I booked us a 45 minute jet boat ride around the harbour n out to edge of sea inlet! White knuckle experience n I loved it but am not allowed to publish pics showing state of Bex's hair n how soaked we got! As a r...

After 12 years it was great to meet up with Jase n Janie. They have a great home with a fantastic pool n 2 really fun boys, Jack n Tom. We have spent 4 days relaxing,catching up n drinking copious amounts of Baileys late into every morning... Last night listening to a Frank Sinatra concert until 5am! It was a unique experience to swim b4 Xmas lunch n I even got an Ozzie hat!Was strange talking to our families after our Xmas as they were in middle of theirs....obv...

Great flight to Bangkok. Not as mad or hectic as Bex remembered n much cleaner. Hit the bars n markets n went all over by Tut Tut which was fun. Lots of exotic sites n I befriended a stunning group of girls that turned out be great blokes! All good fun n we danced the nite away to live music with black eyed peas inspired local groups who were superb. Day on bed with soreish head n fly to Cairns,Oz tomorrow to stay with my best pal from my early years Jason, Jan...

We loved Siem Reap. More relaxed than other cities n centre was full of rocking bars n cocktails for $2! We eat out for no more than $5 each n the food is great! Siem Reap is home of 160 ancient temples from the 9th n 10th century n discovered in the main, in last 100 years by the French. The most famous is 10th century Angkor Watt, the largest ancient site in the world n now one of the 7 wonders of the world. Pictures don't do it justice but it was amazing t...