Whoop, whoop! Arrived in AUSSIE! We are now getting used to airports, so the usual, fill in landing cards, go through passport control, collect baggage........but I hadn't realised about the Aussie queues for quarantine! I have been to Sydney about 9 years ago, but I don't remember this and I HATE queues! We landed at 5.30am and I'm not a morning person anyway, especially after no sleep on a plane, so when Ian told me I needed to ditch my cashew nuts as they ...

We are now in Phuket in Thailand. Staying at a great place called Boomerang Village, which was number 1 on tripadvisor and is the price of a travelodge in England...and........it's called Boomerang! Fun! Why would we stay anywhere else? Unfortunately we have the addition of a new holiday word, rain! A humongous amount of rain! Although it doesn't last too long and it's still REALLY hot! And new phrase is the ubiquitous Thai phrase 'same, same, but different' ...

We are now in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The word of the holiday so far...humongous! Don't know how to spell it,don't know if it's a real word (unless you are a teenage mutant ninja turtle) but it's the word of the holiday so far. Petronas towers, humongous! Buddha at the batu caves, humongous, queue at passport control.....humongous! (ian has just googled it and apparently humongous became a real word in 1960's, I honestly thought it was a made up word) Ph...

Finally on our way on the big trip to Australia! So funny, we waited for the train in Darlington, ready with back packs on feeling very excited. The train arrived, we got on......then had to get off 10 minutes later in Northallerton to wait for the Grand Central train to London we were booked on. Bit overpacked for a 10 min trip to sunny Northallerton! We were arriving in London late on so decided when we arrived at the Aldgate travelodge to go straight to be...