We arrived in Airlie Beach from Hervey Bay and had a few hours to kill before we were to board our boat for the next two days, we had heard the weather had been pretty crap and had our fingers crossed for some sun. We got ourselves some food and alcohol (for the next few days) and it was time to board the boat. There were 18 of us on our boat, a Norwegian family, quite a few English and some more Brazilians, we all had our introduction meeting with Nick (the skip...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> I don't want a watch, or a suit, or a bag or a massage, or a lift on your crappy bike thing! Oh my god, how many times we had to say this! We wish we had the Thailand T-shirts which tell the pests you don't want anything! We have never seen so many designer shops in our lives, for anybody rich (most certainly not us at the moment) it would be heaven! Anyway, we got into...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> We had one night in Singapore, we were not too bothered about staying longer as we felt it was just another city on a long list and Lisa had been there before! So we headed to Little India, which took a long time, we quickly realised how big a place it was! It was so clean, Ben thought, the airport was huge and modern, much better than any of our airports! We had a bit o...

We arrived into Darwin a lot earlier than expected as we had to get a flight (costing a whopping $420 each) as there were no cheaper buses. We had 6 days in Darwin, and were not sure what to do except that we wanted to see some Crocs and visit Kakadu National Park. Our hostel was quite nice and we had two swimming pools and a spa. Although Darwin is in its rainy season we got some great weather in the first couple of days which consisted of us lounging around t...

Due to Ben's obsession with Lord of The Rings he was desperate to visit Matamata, a small village near to where Hobbiton was set in the LoTR's trilogy. We bought our expensive tour tickets and headed off in a van around a huge farm, filled with thousands of sheep. Ben got rather excited when we approached the main area of the set and was pointing at random scenery telling Lisa about the films, Lisa nods, smiles and makes enthusiastic noises! The best part of ...