OK, we have to say that we are loving it here so far! Our days have been filled with relaxing by the pool and lazily puting 4 meals a day on the tab! NICE! We actually have been doing many things though! On Sunday we went to the Nyepi Festival in Tanah Lot. Every Balinese town celebrates their Balinese Hindu new year by parading through the streets with statues they have made in their individual villages! The statues were actually fantastic! They were generally ...

Hi there boys and girls, just a quick update on how we are getting on. We have now got to Bali and we are loving it so far. We are staying in a very plush hotel owing to Dubs's mum giving us her American Express points! it is even better than the one we stayed in in Fiji. We can not upload any photos at the present, but if you want to check out how good the hotel is, follow the link! www.lemeridien.com/bali We went to a Balinese new Year festival yesterda...

Hey there! We did not want to give you our opinion about Rainbow Beach on the last journal because we were in the Rainbow Beach Community Centre and the people in there were really nice and we did not want to offend them that much. Basically Cess and Carol came here 5 years ago and had a really good time because it was really peaceful, tourist free and laid back! Now there are 3 main backpackers all next to each other. We are staying in Dingo's Backpackers...

We only had a couple of days in Noosa but we loved every minute of it! Noosa was filled with posh people, mainly from Melbourne (if you can call that posh) and England. There was a sense of pretention but it was really funny, it definitely did not bother us! The weather was scorching and the beach was incredible! Best of all Cess did not get burnt! Last time she came with Carol she came back a lobster.Our hostel was really cool, it was run by nice people who had ...

Hi there boys and girlsOnly one week to go until we leave Australia! we are very excited as we have been here for exactly five months. As soon as we left Melbourne, time has flown really quickly. We were in Adelaide again for a week staying with Dubs's family, where we passed the time going to the beach in Glenelg and visiting some museums in the City. We capped off the trip by going to a very amusing football match: Adelaide United V Shangdong Luneng in the ...