On day 44 (ish!) we went and stayed out of Mandurah again, but just for one night. We wanted to go to a place called Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth and if we were to travel back the same day we wouldn't really have had enough time there to bother going. They do have a lot of accomodation on the island itself, and even a cheap hostel, however it is so popular particuarly this season that we couldn't get anywhere to stay. We decided to stay the night in Fre...

We have been in Australia for about two weeks, but we hadn't yet been to Perth, WA's capital city, so we thought we would do that over the weekend. It's only about an hours bus ride to get to the centre of Perth, however we thought that we would stay there for the whole weekend. One day wouldn't be enough really, and there was no point going backwards and forwards. Early friday morning (Day 39) we headed out on the bus and arrived at our hostel late morning. We h...

On day 36 we went to Rockingham, which is the next town along from Mandurrah on the way towards Perth. We had booked to do a dolphin swim there the next day and basically we went there to check out how the get to the meeting place so we didn't miss it. We were going to be a bit tight on time and as they would take our money for the swim even if we missed it, we couldn't afford to be late. It was quite easy to find though in the end, and we managed to work out all...

As I am writing this it's day 36 of our trip (I think - it's hard to keep track of what day and date it is at the moment!) We arrived at last in Australia on 1st December, so just over a week ago. I have kept meaning to update my blog since we arrived but haven't got around to it until now. The flight from Singapore was fine and only lasted 5 hours. After all the coach journeys we have been doing the fact we had a meal and a TV to keep us occupied made time fly. ...

We left Melaka quite early as usual on day 23 and I can't say I was sad to go. I was really looking forward to getting to Singapore, although not really to the 5 hour coach ride it took to get there. We got a taxi to Melaka bus station, and it was the crasiest taxi I have evr been in. It was covered in carpet on the inside and teddybear material and lights. If anyone reading this is from Needham, it was like being inside Mr Crisp's car! When one of the girls put ...