As many of you know we have returned home to sunny sunny England. It's bloody freezing!! We both are really disappointed that the trip has ended much earlier than we had planned. We failed to find work in Sydney as we found that a lot of employers didn't favour working holiday makers like us. I guess they don't want to spend money training travellers who can't commit long term. We both tried extremely hard but it just wasn't meant to be. C'est la vie. On Jon...

Hi again, Here is the remainder of our East Coast story…enjoy! We had an early rise to catch the train to Australia Zoo. When we were younger, we both were avid fans of Steve Irwin's snake and crocodile TV shows so we were very excited to see his zoo. Overall, we felt a little disappointed by it all. Jonny felt that the animals didn't have the best conditions to live in and I felt that the strong message of conservation was being coerced onto us at every ...

We will continue to fill you in on our East Coast adventures - although we are currently settled in Sydney looking for jobs! (Pictures and details of our home for the next 5 months to follow…) Whitsundays - Brisbane: As we had spent a few days on a liveaboard boat in Cairns, we decided to do 2 day trips to the Whitsundays. On the first visit, we caught the ferry to Daydream Island where we had access to the resort's facilities. We pretty much read and rel...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!! Apologies for not updating this sooner but we've travelled rapidly down the east coast and have had very little time, and also the internet over here is really poor! Worse than South East Asia would you believe! We have just found a flat in Sydney and are now searching for jobs. Will tell you about our flat in the next blog, which I am currently writing up by hand! Before we fill you in on our adventures...

Hi Everyone, We made it to Australia safely! Its boiling hot and the sun just doesn't stop shining!! Cairns, Australia: We arrived in Cairns early in the morning after 2 near sleepless flights! The first flight took us to Darwin and then we changed, after a 2 hour ish wait, to our flight to Cairns. We both very tired and extremely grumpy, made worse by the Aussie authorities who took our sunscreen and apple juice off us! I had to declare 2 packets of tea...