I didn't fancy catching the Greyhound from Carnes to Port Douglas so hired a camper for the week and headed north from Carnes to Port Douglas.An absolutely stunning drive up the coast road through Mossman, Daintree and eventually up to Cape Tribulation. Port Douglas is a beautiful little town, immaculate in every way, lots of designer shops, coffee bars etc.It could so easily have been full of pretentious idiots like Leigh-on-Sea but it wasn't it was really frie...

Keith's mate Axel lives and runs a back packers hostel in Carnes, so as I was in Carnes and back packing it seemed the sensible thing to do, to book in to 'The Calypso'.My plane flew in about nine in the evening, and the hostel bus picked me up from the air port. The hostel is pretty cool, really friendly although I didn't take advantage of the bar on the first night as I was knackered so ate & slept! I wanted to hire a bike, I had directions of the hire sh...

After leaving Asia it was fantastic to arrive in Australia where the mother tongue (or at least a watered down version) is spoken.Having said that customs weren't too keen on making me feel welcome.I was given the twenty questions, my bag was searched and of all the things they could confiscate they took my Coffee Mate.I was thinking of reenacting the Peter Kay 'Dad at customs' sketch but thought better of it. I finally got through customs thankfully avoiding th...