So this travelling malarkey seems to have completely messed up our sleeping patterns as yesterday Emily and I were wide awake at 6.30am. We decided that rather than lying around listening to people snore (surely if you know you snore you should be obliged not to book into 10 bed dorms in hostels?) we'd get up and go for a wander. We went back down to the beach, and were met by some distinct 'American-ness'. Literally everywhere you looked there were t...

So we got here in one piece...just about. 11 and a half hours is not a civilised time to spend on a plane, but Virgin Atlantic rock. They feed you constantly and the entertainment system thing they have is wicked. We ended up having to run so that we didn't miss the flight even though we'd been at Heathrow for 3 hours and so it wasn't a leisurely departure! We realised that although we were going to be arriving at 2am UK time we were never going to see night-time...

Hey folks... So I'm just putting a quick message on here so that you know you're in the right place when you first visit. As I'm sure you ALL know, I'll be updating this journal as regularly as possible from across the States, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Dubai over the next 6 and a half months. At this point I'm feeling a mixture of trepidation and amazement that I'm actually doing this...but I'd better get my head round it fast, ...