Having spent a week in Brisbane, we left feeling very refreshed having done a tonne of washing and eating a heap load of pasta and sauce (to save money)!!! The morning we were picked up we were told we were about to go Zorbing, it was then we wished we had missed out on brekkie!! Zorbing is basically a huge plastic ball filled with air and there is a whole in the middle where you go along with a load of water and soap.You then get pushed down a hill and proc...

Hello all, Before I begin I must warn you people out there that this is going to be a very, very, very looooonnnnng post card as it involves quite a few places. Be warned!!!!!!! Well, it is I, Dan. Yes I have drawn the short straw of updating you wonderful people back home in Sunny England. We begin this part of the trip in Cairns, a really....... nice place. It has a real laid back atmosphere for a 'city'. The actual place is not that large. As Hannah ...

hello.....sorry it has been a while but sitting at a computer these days seems to be a bit of a task!!! Well, we made it through our weeks stay in Alice Springs, and when it came to it I wasn't brave enough to hold the snake! So adios Alice and hello East Coast- sun, sea, sand and plenty of scantily clad young bronzed men......ha! We left Alice Springs in a 4x4 bus which was to take us another 3000km across baron desert to Cairnes. Luckily the bus was...

So..... we get up at some ungodly hour of 5am to catch the bus up to Alice. So we wait, and we wait and the bloody bus never turns up! GREAT- luckily the office was open and we just got a taxi to the office and the bus met us there where we didn't actually leave until 7am- which means we could have stayed in bed for another few hours!!! Not a good start! After catching up on some sleep on the bus we had to do the obligatory welcome speech where you have to intr...

The next leg of our tour of Oz............ As you already know we start this leg from Melbourne & we end up in Adelaide. The route we took for this journey was along 'The Great Ocean Road' & what a journey it was. The views were just out of this world. The road is basically what it says.............. 'Great' & right on the 'Ocean' for around 300 km!!!!!! Our road trip begins with our 3 new friends, Helen (designated driver), Rob (crazy Welsh doctor) & R...