Hi from country number three. We are currently sitting in a little shop in Akaroa which doesn't really have much else. We picked up our 'hippy mobile' earlier today and it has already been good fun driving around the great country side. Yesterday we left Melbourne at 6am which meant we got up at 4 in the morning it was very painful!!! However Christchurch was very nice (despite spending little time there) and the first leg of our trip into the country has been s...

Hi All, This is a quick post as we are in yet another bad connected internet cafe.  We will try to do a better one when we get back to Sydney. We arrived in Melbourne 2 days ago.  The hotel we are staying in is very nice - very different to the outback!  We have explored the city - it feels like you are in London, where we are staying could be Greenwich! Yesterday we were put in gaol!!!!!  We went to the old Melbourne gaol, it was actually very int...

Hello from a scorching hot Alice Springs, We have had a couple of highly memorable days which I loved completely and Jen will probably have nightmares over for a while to come yet. It started at 6am on Friday morning when a group of 21 of us loaded on to a mini coach and started our 7 hour drive through the desert. On the way we saw several kangaroos, camels, and even a cow that had a rather messy and damaging experience with a car. Our destination was Ayers Ro...

G'Day from the Outback (Oops), We have arrived at Alice Springs and it is a scorching 34C!!!! We have had a great couple of days in Sydney although they have been raining almost non-stop so arriving in the middle of the desert in such extreme temperatures is quite a change. The hostel we are staying in is a very nice place, basic but what nicer than what many hostels look like. Tomorrow morning at 6Am we head off into the wilderness (well paths that haven't bee...

G'Day ya flamin gala and all that ozzie lingo!  We are in Carringbah, Sydney staying with Rob's great Aunt Jean and Great Uncle Norman.  Needless to say it is like having another set of grandparents!  They are looking after us very well.  We have met a lot of Rob's 2nd and 3rd cousins (with a 4th on the way!) and they are all lovely.  So far we have explored Carringbah and it is like no town in England.  Beautiful beaches and nice sunny weathe...