We'd had a lovely relaxing time in Melbourne, catching up with friends and family but we knew we needed to crack on with our agricultural days on our limited time frame so after 4 days we got up at ridiculous o'clock and headed to the bus station to go work on a zoo!! We would be wwoofing there until some paid work was ready for us in Mildura, which is working for food and accomodation and also ticking off days for our VISA. We weren't overly keen on this idea to...

We arrived in Melbourne to be greeted by my cousins Sue and Albert and I knew our few days before the zoo would be full of spoiling and home comforts. It was so nice to have our own comfy room after a month staying in hostels. We slept in, had a walk along the beach, went shopping, caught up with family, had a quick explore of the city, met up with Sirach and had a few drinks with Vicky and Dave in the Neighbours stars' local pub before jumping on the bus to Mans...

As the bumpy flight set off from Wellington we were on our way to Oz. After a few amazing weeks in New Zealand it was strange to think that the Kiwi Experience was just the 'holiday' or warm-up act for the main event - a potential two years in Australia. But now we were touching down in Queensland to begin the real adventure. Our starting point was Cairns to the far northeast - departure point for the Great Barrier Reef - but our focus was on finding farm work t...

After a long windy journey out of the mountains and into the city, we arrived in Wellington! Day and I had stayed in quite a few different hostels to our buddies along the way on the kiwi bus as we found double rooms didn't cost much more than the dorms everyone else was staying in. But as this was our last stop in NZ - and our big farewell to half of Team Doom - we bunked in with everyone in the dorms in Base. We pre drank on the dorm room floor (obvs), then all...

Next up after Taupo was River Valley, an exclusive stop in the middle of nowhere for Kiwi Experience only, with Bridge, our latest and grumpiest driver. I have to say, one thing I've been disappointed with has been the bus drivers on our trip. We were expecting holiday rep style people but instead they have all been pretty miserable and boring, with the exception of Jarrad, our hilariously foul-mouthed driver up to BOI. The location of River Valley was stunning ...