We arrived safely in Thailand, the immigration took forever but we got there. Lifted money at the airport ATM when we arrived an it charged $7 to lift, rip off, really hoped they weren't all like that (they are! 180baht). We got the shuttle to the hostel (180baht pp); we've been with some dodgy drivers but he was by far the worst, swerving in and out of cars, tooting people out of the way who were too slow etc. He also didn't know where our hostel was and tried t...

We got picked up at 9 for our transfer to Sanur to catch the boat to Nusa Lembongan. After calculating our spending, we decided to take the slow locals boat, which took 2 hours instead of 30mins in the speedboat. This entailed us sitting on planks of wood that stretched horizontally from on side of the boat to the other and for about 5 people on each plank. It was a smooth enough journey thank goodness. When we got off the other side, we were hounded by Taxi Taxi...

We arrived at Denpasar airport at 5pm, got through immigration and got our visas ($35 usd or 455,000 rupiah pp), thankfully there was an ATM at the airport. Got through to the arrivals hall and I have never seen soo many taxi drivers and signs with people's names. Thankfully we found ours easily enough, and off we went. He didn't speak very good English, but we got there in our communication. We arranged the pick up through the hotel, which cost 350,000 rupiah, t...

Flight landed in Perth at 12.30am, and got the taxi to Ace car rental to pick up the car. They had a lockbox on side window with the key inside, soin we went, turned the car around, got into our sleeping bags and slept until sunrise at 5am. Of course, I was worrying all night that the police were gona pull up beside us. Thankfully they didn't. Woke up just before 5am (I have an amazing body clock even with a three hour time change from brisbane), got coffees and ...

Arrived in Brisbane at lunch time and munched out in McDonalds. Made our way to Hopes apartment, which was only 10mins outa the city on the glider. Used our GO cards again which we got last year at Natalies. Just spent the day wandering the shops of queen street mall. Then back to Hopes to get ready for dinner and musical bingo at The Boundary. So nice to see Hope again :) Up the next day to meet Natalie, Keelan and baby Lucas. Spent the day on Southbank, by la...