Well here I am - I've hit the East coast!! I have not been looking forward to this part of the Australia trip as I've been told it's full of young kids on their gap year, and now I'm here I can confirm that this is indeed true!!!! I can see their objective is partying rather than travelling. I stayed in a hostel called Gilligans and lasted one night in my first dorm, an 8 bed female dorm, which became home to every man and his dog as nightime approached - the em...

Great excitement when I arrived in Adelaide - I had an Australian flag duvet cover - how cool is that! I also had plastic sheets which weren't quite so cool as you make a racket everytime you moved - but hey you can't have it all! First impressions of Adelaide : it's cold, so cold in fact that I have had to go out and buy some cheap ballet pumps and a pair of wooly tights! Moving onto the town itself, well it's really pretty and has character - it's a university...

Well this time I was on a 6 day adventure from Alice Springs all the way to Adelaide. The group were lovely but maybe not quite as lively as some of the groups I have been with. There were basically 6 girls who were the more sociable ones so we all tended to stick together.- Myself, Anne, Trine, Vera, Nicole and Jo. Our tour guide for the full 6 days was Kiwi from...yes you've guessed it, New Zealand. He completely loves himself and is arrogant with it but he kn...

The trip did not have the best start as everyone who went out the previous night both felt and looked terrible! Fortunately there were 18 of us on a 24 seater bus so we could spread out. For this trip we had 2 tour guides Benchy and a trainee called Nik. Their emphasis was on fun and boy did they create it! Benchy in particular was a bit of a prankster so to while away the long hours on the bus they had us singing karaoke, eating weet-a-bix in a race, playing a ...

I went on a 3 day tour to Litchfield and Kakadu which are both located fairly close to Darwin ( well they are in Australian standards at least!) As well as the scenery the highlights of the tour have got to be the handsome tall tour guide and the posh camp sites! Oh yes we had permanent tents, beds wth matresses and proper tented kitchens with communal areas - wow or should I say ' sweet as'. Catchphrases for all trips from now on are 'sweet as', 'no worries' a...