We were greeted by Ellie at the bus terminal after another long 18 hour journey to Melbourne. It was good to be reunited with another Laos buddy and she kindly invited us to stay at her house just outside of the city in a town called Gisbourne. Australian houses are so different to the UK. From what we've seen they all get a huge plot of land and everyone has the money to built their own house. It's because they have so much space. Australia is about 40 times t...

Cruising down the beach in a 4x4 to Ocean Drive by the Lighthouse Family and the theme tune to The O.C sounds like something out of an American TV show. It's actually how we've spent the last 3 days, alongside 32 other backpackers on Fraser Island - the worlds largest sand island. Following a short brief about the island, how to drive on sand and a few unnerving tips on how to deal with all the poisonous snakes, spiders and wild dingos we loaded the cars and set...

It poured with rain for 3 days when we arrived in Cairns, which for obvious reasons didnt give us a great first impression. We weren't ready to give up the sun, our tans were fading and we're still only equipped for the summer. Putting our positive heads on though we headed into town to book the Great Barrier Reef trip we had planned all along, only 2 hours later we left with a Reef trip, a sailing trip to Whitsundays, 3 days on Fraser Island and a zoo day to cud...

The 12 hour drive from The Gold Coast to Sydney was pretty shocking. However, the pain was softened by the thought of us heading to spend time with Jayde in her lovely apartment. Being in Sydney also meant reuniting with Laos buddies Alex and Mark and finally getting to spend some time with Fletch after 2 years. Activity wise as we knew Sydney was going to be a social call, we didn't plan on many sight seeing adventures. Plus, to be honest we fancied a break! ...

Our final port of call for Asia was Singapore, by the the most expensive city/country on our Asia itinerary. With this in mind we prepared ourselves for a 'boring' four days before boarding our flight to Aus, but it was quite the opposite. We lived like Kings! Luckily one of Liam's old colleagues, John, who is now a Singapore expat, kindly invited us to stay with him and his girlfriend for a couple of nights. It was a rare, but welcome reversal to spend our fi...