Friday 2nd February G'day people! We are writing to you on this update with fingers and arms that can barely move after our first week of pear picking! We both knew that fruit picking was going to be pretty strenuous but I don;t think even a run up Mount Everest could have physically prepared us for the strain it would have on our bodies! The week started off predictably tough, the first row of trees we were given to pick were the oldest ones in the orchard and...

Sunday 28th January Hello again there readers! We've had news yesterday that we will be starting our fruit picking tomorrow morning as the pears are pretty much ready. We've been given our 'joey' bags which strap around our necks and today I did some practice driving on the tractor that i'll be driving around the orchard. Kerry has to stand on the trailer at the back between the fruit boxes so i've been told not to drive to fast! Driving a tractor is actually pr...

G'day peeps! Darren and Kerry again here from downunder! We're now in a large town called Shepparton and have had a pretty interesting couple of days which we'll give you a quick catch-up on: Tuesday 23rd January Made our way North to Ballarat today, the largest in-land city in Australia and one of the first places in Victoria to experience the gold rush in the area that is now known as the Goldfields. We arrived and headed straight to the Eureka Visitor Centre...