Arrived last tuesday in Airlie Beach, unfortunately all the central campsites were full so we ended up staying at a campsite just on the edge. It wasn't great but when the lady at reception told us it was only a 10-15min walk to the town (20 mins if you walk very slowly) we thought it was an ideal place to stay. We set off with anna and franz along the bicentenial walkway (wich is very nice) and after 20mins - still no sign of the shops, so we picked up the pace ...

hi all, So we left our friends in Port Douglas after we had been there a week and headed for the Atherton tablelands, Which is an area that looks quite alot like north yorkshire, full of lush green rolling countryside and alot of waterfalls. Our first stop was lake Tinaroo so we took what we thought was 'The Way' and ended up down some "4 X 4 ONLY" dirt track, poor smantha's suspension was not enjoying this and as were not really supposed to be going o...

G'Day!! So we finally get to pick our camper van up "Deluxe samantha" is her name but this bears no resemblance to the artwork on the side (see pics!!) Its very basic but we have everything we need in there! We headed straight up to cooktown in north queensland which is about a 200 mile drive from cairns.The landscape was amazing, endless outback territory, termite mounds and plenty of wild kangaroos and wallabies. It was great to see them in the wild. ...

We arrived at cairns at 9 in the morning and the weather was gorgeous, we instantly knew we were gonna love it here! The first hostel we stayed in wasnt much to write home about but we met some great people there. We booked a trip to the village of kuranda which was great, we took a train ride on the kuranda scenic railway in a very authentic lookin train which took about an hour and 15 mins stopping along the way to view the barron falls on the great barron rive...

hey all, we got the night coach from butterworth wich was supposed to take us all the way into singapore (that is what we were told!!) at 7am we were kicked off the bus and put on a city bus wich dropped us off at johor bahru which is at the malaysian border, we had no idea where we were, so we followed the crowds through to the customs and immigrations area and then through to the bus station. we had no clue wich bus we were supposed to get on and we must have b...