Mum's been and gone and it has flown by. We got alittle emotional even meeting her at the airport, we made banners for her and Mark (well hardly banners especially in comparison to some of the ones people were holding up-just to forwarn you we want banners and lots of the, oh and baloons and party poppers but i don't know if they'll allow them at the airport). We spent the first few days in a nice apartment in Melbourne, where we had to say a sad fare...

If you're going to go and watch the surfing you may as well do it properly! Ever since we started our travels we said that we wanted to go and watch the surfing but every so called surfing beach has had no surfers-so we thought we'ld go all out and pay a whole 4 pounds to watch the likes of Kelly Slater, Andy Irons and Mike Flannning battle it out to become RipCurl Pro, strutting their stuff down at Bells Beach. What a day! We litterally rubbed shoulders ...

We're on the road to nowhere (the song, not literally on the road to nowhere-although at times it has been the case). We left Sydney a week or so ago with a tag along in the way of an Irish mad man that we met in Fiji and bumped into again in Sydney- he's great really, a real 'gas ticket' as he calls us. Things didn't quite get off to the smooth start that we'd hoped, we picked the car up on saturday with the plan to head to the beach but ...

Guess where we've just been! To the opppppeeeeerrrrrraaaaaaa! That's right me and Bridgey have just been to watch an outside opera performance at Sydney opera house, it was quite something! (plus it was free, always a bonus, we stumbled upon it by chance, not the opera hpuse, you can hardly stumble upon that!). Anyway more of Australia in a minuite. To Fiji- a well deserved holiday within a holiday- it's hard work this travelling milarky. It was all f...

Kia Ora. We thought we'ld check in and say "hello" and "goodbye" from New Zealand. You'll have to excuse us if we don't update our journal for a while, we'll be sunning ourselves (oh and learning to play volleyball-we suck) in Fiji, yes we know it's a hard life! New Zealand has been fantastic, the weather lovely, the scenery beautiful and varied and the people friendly (all except alittle kiwi guy down in Queenstown-you kno...