It's Sinéad eve!! (we fly to Melbourne tomorrow to stay with Carols sister Sinéad and David - our whole reason for the trip to Oz). I didn't see Carol this excited at our wedding! Hmmm... I think I could potentially be killed if I try get the first hug outside Melbourne arrivals tomorrow when Sinéad picks us up! Had a great night sleep in the laundry room despite 6am wake up. Woke up next to another French couple who obviously had the same ideas as us somewh...

We were woken up at 5.30am (I say woken, but I had been awake since 2.30am due to the mice crawling all over my swag). Many of the campers didn't get 1 minute sleep. Had breakfast onsite (noticed mice on table we used for breakfast which was not good). Had tea / toast again, before rolling bag and swag before boarding bus for day 2 of our Rock tour. We seen at least 3 mice running around the bus that morning and one brave girl onboard discarded of 2 (in a humane...

Woke up about 5.15am for day 1 of our rock tour. The tour involved visiting great places like Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon and of course, the rock itself, Uluru also known as Ayers Rock. Was definitely looking forward to this one!! Had complimentary breakkie in hostel which was tea & toast. Basic but it did the job. We were collected by Rock Tour bus and our guide Rachelle just after 6am. Noticed early on that there were nearly 900,000 kms up on the bus. Only i...

Woke up pretty early today and noticed wifey was missing! Not to worry though, she was just on the Internet the hall. I logged on for a bit to check if there was any news back home. I saw that the boxers did quite well in European championships with 2 golds. We're really looking forward to seeing them @ the Olympics next summer! We strolled into Smith street for a look around the shops, while Carol looked around I found some free wifi in central Daarwwinn. (locat...

So day 10 of our holiday! we signed up for 1 day tour of Litchfield national park (well some of it!) We were picked up at hostel by bus and our guide for today, Daz. All these early starts are starting to take their toll. We had a bigger group than Kakadu N.P tour, i reckon about 18/19. Got chatting to 2 Aussie guys down back of the bus. One barman from Sydney up here on interview fire fighting station. He said he was so tough to get into fire jobs anywhere in...