So after our fab few days in Kenya, we were dreading our journey, 4 hours from Lake Nakuru to Nairobi and straight onto the shuttle bus for 5 1/2 hours to Arusha, Tanzania, but time passed quickly and we were excited about the next leg of the trip. Ken from Kenya had been great at organising and Fred dropped us off at the shuttle, Grace phoned to make sure we were ok, Tom had our tickets, Saidi picked us up in a cab to take us to the hotel, Abraham met us in the ...

Galloglys on safari!  Part 1 - Kenya So I booked cheap flights to Kenya a year ago and then spent some time researching safari companies.  They are expensive! So after many hours on the Internet I settled on one with a good deal, safarkenyatanzania, and paid a deposit.  Much to Ian's delight I was dealing with a guy called Ken, yes Ken from Kenya , which Ian though was a bit suspect and after a year of Ian joking about Ken from Kenya driving around in a flas...

Mixed feelings today, sad as this is the last leg of an amazing trip, but happy as we LOVE Bali. It would have been rubbish to have ended with an anti-climax, but we arrived at 8.30pm and got a taxi from outside the airport to Ubud where we were staying for the first 3 nights. It's about an hour from the airport and as we neared Ubud we could tell this was going to be fantastic. There are statues, temples and shrines everywhere and as we drove through Ubud th...

Although it's an internal flight, the flight to Darwin from Perth was 3.5 hours, well Australia is BIG! It's also 1.5 hours in front of Perth, so we left at 8.30am and arrived at 1.30pm and as it's an internal flight, in no time we were picking up our camper van! A quick stop in Darwin for supplies where Ian was delighted to be asked for ID when he bought some beers, he thought the holiday must have knocked 20 years off him. We then found out that everyone has...

We are now in Margaret River. Basically we have gatecrashed Michele and Andy's honeymoon, they had booked an apartment in Margaret River which is about 3 1/2 hours south of Perth and has 120 wineries! 120!!! We stopped en route at a place called Busselton, which has the longest pier in the Southern Hemisphere. It's 2km long and had an underwater observatory at the end of the pier, under the pier, where you can look out into the sea and feel as though you are p...