Dear Chloe Thank you very much for your generous wedding gift to us. Rather than buy us a present, you wisely spent the money on gracing us with your presence in Australia and it was the best gift you could have given. As we checked into our last hostel in Brisbane without you for the first time, a large concrete monstrosity with no heart or soul, where you are treated as a number rather than a person and where you need a keycard to open any door, including...

Dear WIllie As promised, here is the second half of our trip to Fraser Island. Picking up where I left off on day two of the three day tour. Jake (the tour guide) was very keen on early starts every day to avoid the rush. Jake's idea of what an early start is is somewhat extreme. So at 4.30 in the morning, yes 4.30 in the morning, after getting up to watch the sunrise and breakfasting, we were off to visit Eli Creek, Indian Head, Champagne Pools and Alan La...

Dear The Framptons and Willie Thank you for both buying us our Fraser Island Tour. We have just got back and it was the most amazing time ever. This blog is going to be a bit of a change from the norm. Basically, where we have had more than one person buy us the same gift, I have tried to only thank one person per blog and allocate another activity to someone else (just in case people were wondering why they hadn't yet been thanked for something they bought wh...

Dear Warren and Claudia Thank you very much for buying us the Castaway tour for our wedding present. This was a trip where we got flown out to a desert island and we were left to fend for ourselves for three days. It sounded amazing and beautiful but… We decided not to do it, I am afraid. Why? Well, I think this might need a little story to tell the whole picture. THE ADVENTURES OF THE INTREPID HONEYMOONERS AND THEIR FAITHFUL SIDEKICK CHLOE On...

Christmas greetings from Town of 1770 from Chloe and the Honeymooners Welcome to Town of 1770, a small beach town halfway down the Queensland coast where we have been spending our Christmas holidays, sitting round the pool, eating lots of barbeques, drinking wine and interacting with the interesting locals. Town of 1770 is a small town of a couple of thousand people conveniently located in what could politely be called the middle of butt-f*** nowhere. It is...