So we're back on the road.........after a sad farewell to Sydney our lovely home for the last year we crammed our backpacks full (never did get traveling light!) and flew back to Bali.This time we stayed in Kuta and having only driven through previously it was a bit different arriving late at night into the heart of the backpacker area. It was full of Brit's and Ozzie's staggering around hammered all about 10 year younger than us, we felt very old and a bit squa...

When we arrived in Balikpapan,Kalimantan our luggage hadn't been put in the plane in Makassar so we had a 24 hour nervous wait to see if it would arrived, which to our relief it did the next day. From there we made our way North up the coast to Kutai National Park in the hope of seeing orang-utans. We had three days in a remote wooden lodge that only had electricity for three hours in the evening. As usual our bad luck with seeing wildlife prevailed and we only m...

We only had a day in Singapore but it seemed like a really cool city, immaculately clean and full of shops - my kind of place! From there it was onto Bali to stay in Benoa where we had two weeks with Fred's family. We all had a really lovely time exploring the island, coupled with lots of eating, drinking, laughing (thanks to Saj) and endless rounds of the shop game and i-spy in the car (thanks to me - wish i'd never suggested it!!). Bali was an incredibly bea...

We flew to the northern most tip of Sulawesi, to a town called Manado and from there got a boat to Bunaken. We spent 8 blissful days there. I did my open water there and we pretty much dived a couple of times every day. The dives there are incredible, really beautiful and good condition coral, and teems of fish. We also saw small sharks and a few turtles, one was enormous and the locals had named it Rambo. We stayed in a great little place with beach huts overlo...