Hanoi - Thursday 15th Arrived in Hanoi airport and handed in our papers for the visa.There were four vacant looking 'officials' who passed our forms and passports backwards and forwards to each other, looking as if it was the first time they had clapped eyes such things.After waiting around for what seemed like an age, someone with a walkie-talkie and a few badges on his uniform turned up and muttered a few words and then finally everything sprang in to acti...

Tuesday 13th The five and a half hour flight to Singapore went quickly and we arrived at Dean and Ben's apartment in the early evening.Jasmine seemed to remember us from three months ago and is still as cheeky as ever. Wednesday 14th We spent most of the day in the Botanical Gardens with Ben and Jasmine. It has a great orchid section with, a cool house and so many different species of trees and plants.We were both struggling to get used to the humidity a...

MargaretRiver - Wednesday 7th Left Fremantle and drove in to Perth to collect our credit cards, then headed back down south towards MargaretRiver.The places that had sounded quite interesting on the way down didn't quite measure up to what we were looking for, so we continued on.There were many road signs alerting drivers to the Kangaroo's and Emu's that may suddenly cross your path and lots of road-kill at the sides of the roads to prove the point.We're sure ...

Sunday 27th We spent the day in the tiny airport as our flight to Perth was delayed by 6 hours.After flying for more than three hours above the red earth and virtually nothing else, we could eventually see light in the distance.As we descended in to Perth we realised just how remote this city is. Perth - Monday 28th It is a public holiday, so the streets were quite empty and as we walked around the city to find our accommodation for the next few nights w...

Ayers Rock - Thursday 24 We both feel gutted about leaving and wish that we had more time here with the antipodean-branch of the Randall family.Cliff and Sandra picked us up for our trip to the airport and unfortunately they were not allowed through security to the airport lounge, as Sandra's torch had a couple of screwdriver tips in the end of it.The goodbyes were painful and shorter than we had planned.Lots of tears later and a flight over thousands of mile...