When we arrived in cairns, we picked up our 'Juicy' van and headed towards Cape Tribulation. It's so much fun having the van and being able to drive everywhere. On the way to Cap Trib we stopped off at Port Douglas for the night in a backpachers/camp site called Dougies which was so good. It was wierd sleeping in the car and cooking our food from the back of it but at the same time it was nice to actually be able to cook for ourselves, we did have a wierd guy cam...

We are such d*** as we spent 24 hours on the train arriving and Darwin at 5.30pm and thought we were leaving at 3am to catch our flight to Cairns, so we thought we would save money....Joyce and i booked into a dorm and were going to sneek Darren in later, the plan was under way until we realised that we had booked into a all girls dorm and of course had the bloody dorm police in full swing, that being a middle aged woman who could of easily taken biggest woman a...

The Ghan was such an experience, we obviously could not afford a sleeper carriage so had to spend 24 hours in a chair but it was still really good fun and its great seeing the out back by train, trying to spot some wild kangaroo and horses was good fun. The train has a diner in it so we were not stuck to our seats and could go and have a meal at a table and just wander around, its so much better than flying. A far cry from the India train we went on. On the way t...

Finally got to Australia after spending a gruelling 8 hours in Singapore airport, and having the most uncomfortable plane journey plus the added bonus of arriving in Darwin at 4.30am in the morning, but it was so nice to arrive in 'civilisation', no lingering sewage smells of south east Asia. It is also strange though because it felt weird at the same time, after four months in a third world countries, being back in a western country felt so weird. Darwin is a...

I am sure you have all heard about the floods and Monsoons and bad weather but fortunately for us it did not affect us that much, we had rains and very strong winds the first week we were here but the second week the weather turned around and it was just stunning. First of all before I go on I would like to thank Allan and Lina for having us and giving us a fantastic holiday in the Philippines, we have had such a brilliant time and after four months of backpack...