Well folks, we are into our last 24 hour in Australia and it is really strange. The last two weeks have been great and we have treated it like a holiday (yes, I know it seems like we have been on holiday for a year, but it is hard work travelling round, seeing new places, new faces and socialising on a regular basis!). We have been sleeping on James and Ange's floor in Manly for the last two weeks, which has been fine, but I think our mattress has seen better...

After a relatively quick/easy drive from Melbourne, we arrived in Australia's capital. It is probably the easiest city in the world to get around, because everything is in circles around the parliament house. It is very well kept and completely manufactured, in that it was specifically designed to be the capital city. There is very little traffic on the roads and it has a kind of 'stepford wives' feel about the place. Although there is little traffic,...

G,day from sunny Victoria! The drive from Adelaide to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road was lovely, but the drive into Melbourne was not! Everyone told us how easy Melbourne was to get about, but I think the fact that we went from single roads with hardly any other vehicles on it to 4 lanes with hundreds of crazy drivers kind of threw us slightly. On route to Melbourne 'we' managed to loose one of my very expensive flip flops. In saying 'we', I m...

Bonjour! Having been in Margaret River for two weeks and camping in what can only be described as a French colony (lots of French people come to Oz to pick fruit apparently), it was a relief to get back on the road. Fuz and I worked for the majority of the two weeks at a wine bottling plant on night shift (back breaking, tedious, extremely low paid and far from fun) and in the mornings at a vineyard picking grapes (think of us the next time you are tucking into y...

G'day again! Hope everyone is well on the other side of the world! After leaving Monkey Mia we continued to head down to Perth, stopping in at Kalbarri and Geraldton on the way. We had a couple of nights at Kalbarrie and it had a really nice friendly feel about it. The drinking water there was lovely which was a welcome surprise from the chlorine loaded stuff we had been forced to drink for the previous two weeks. We had a couple of leisurely days there and the h...