Hello from sunny Cairns! Well what a few days this has been! Absolutely shattered, emotional, excited and nervous all in one really. First, the flights! One piece of advice, NEVER try and do UK to Australia WITHOUT a decent stop-over! So we got to Heathrow T3 on Thursday 6pm, met up and excitedly checked in, pretty shocked by how heavy our bags already were! We said a teary goodbye to the parents, and promised we would take care of each other for the next 12 we...

Hello! This is my first blog post...I just wanted to trial it and get to grips with it while I have the time! So our flight out of Heathrow will be at 10pm Thursday 4th March 2010, where we will fly to Dubai, refuel then onto Brisbane. We will then catch an internal flight up to Cairns and start our adventure travelling down the East coast of Australia. Feelings at the moment...have I packed everything? Have I forgotten anything? Must remember to take a hairbr...