Adelaide We arrived at Adelaide airport to be greeted by Julie who we would stay with in Adelaide. It made a nice change not to have to find our own way from an airport and an even better change to stay in a proper house, with a comfy bed, with a good shower, proper towels, complete kitchen, unlimited of Weet-bix, full library, access to 'hire' car and no other smelly travellers. Thanks again Julie! Having read our blog Julie had spotted that we liked to walk...

Our Campervan Adventure in SW Australia Day 1: Perth - Bunbury The simple task of collecting our campervan took longer than expected…the credit card machine wasn't working (meaning all transactions had to be phoned through)… the fax machine was an integral part of the process (no computers in the office apparently)…the staff were incompetent… our van hadn't been cleaned…the staff lost the key to our van…though the inadequate induction to our van t...

Perth and Fremantle We arrived in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Perth and were grateful that we had scrapped the original plan to sleep at the airport and instead decided to pay for the extra night accommodation at our decent hostel in the Northbridge area of the city. After a lengthy lay in we set off on the, what is becoming obligatory, walking tour. The tour took us past some fine old buildings, some interesting monuments, and some good looking n...

Thoughts on our travels through SE Asia So we've now reached the end of the '2nd part' of our travels and its hard to believe that 3 of the 8 months have already whizzed by. As we did at the end of the European leg we thought this would be a good time to reflect on what we've seen in the last 6 weeks or so. Again, this is more of a reminder to us than an interesting blog entry - it isn't intended as a definitive guide to anyone else! As before, these are ...

Kuala Lumpur & Singapore Unlike the Cameron Highlands, we weren't exactly sad to leave Taman Negara behind with its leeches, frogs and, somewhat surprisingly, the rubbish food on offer. After a much needed rest day in the uneventful town of Jerantut (even the LP says not to bother with it) we headed by coach to Kuala Lumpur, or KL as its more usually known. In some ways it was good to be in a city again and we approached the sightseeing ahead of us ...