Hello from Borneo!  We arrived in Borneo 2 days ago and have already fallen in love with the place.  It is hot and humid, more expensive than other SE Asian countries and you have to squat for the toilet, but it is also very sedate, beautiful, green, friendly...i could go on for days.  We are in the city of Kuching andstaying at a lovely guesthouse near the water front.  The staff are friendly, helpful and knowledgable about their local area.  Fuz ...

Sabaidee from Laos!  It has been a while since our last update due to the fact that we have hardly stoppped in 4 weeks and also because for no apparent reason my updates have not been saved....you can imagine how chuffed i have been at that!!  Since leaving Oz we have been in Bangkok (Thailand), Siem Reap & PhnomPehn (Cambodia), Saigon, Hoi An, Halong Bay, Hanoi and Nhtrang (Vietnam) and Vientiene, Vang Vieng and now Luang Prabang (Laos).  Loas has c...

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...