Nadi wasn't quite what we had expected as it was tiny to say it is the second largest city in Fiji. There is one main road with shops so the first day Nick and I did a bit of shopping and i bought a lovely wooden turlt which I have sent home and hope it arrives in one piece! Fiji is also not cheap and we had to barter hard, this is a shame as none of the money seems to filter to the villagers as it is a poor place and all the shops are owned by Indians and no...

We spent almost a whole day on a coach from Airlie Beach to Cairns setting off at 930 only to arrive at 1930! The only good thing was the movies as we got to watch Fining Nemo and Titanic! Cairns rained both days we were there but it was actually nice after weeks of the blazing sun and it kept the humidity down too. We had 3 nights in a hostel in total and Cairns was a lot bigger and had a lot more going on than we had first thought. Unfortunately our diving trip...

I was initially worried that this trip wouldn't match up to Fraser island as we had had such a great time there but luckily it was really good and an altogether very different experience. Airlie beach itself wasn't that nice and the hostel we stayed in called Koalas was horrible. the room smelt of urine even after they moved us 3 times and there was a dead rat in the kitchen as well as another running around! We were really lucky to sail in the end as th...

We have been travelling for a week now and it seems longer as we have done so much! We got the over night coach from Sydney to Byron Bay which was just gorgeous! It was so refreshing to be on a quiet beach after Bondi and the water was so warm it was like swimming in a bath! We stayed in a little hoste which was really cool as there were only about 12 poeple and we all sat around chatting in the evenings. We spent both days we had there on the beach and one day N...

This will be my last update now from Sydney which is quite sad as we love it here but cool none the less as it means we will finally be backpackers again! Since Christmas things have been pretty quiet as we only have the weekends to really do anything and since we decided to leave Sydney early it has been great as it has made us do some things we have been meaning to do for a while and just haven’t got round to.  Phil and Jen from Uni, who we spent New...