We caught the greyhound from Cairns at one o clock, just. Wed been standing at the bus station for about twenty minutes, an obviously place for any bus to depart but suddenly realised we were in the wrong place and with only five minutes to go before departure (not Fiji time) we had to run across Cairns with our huge backpacks, fully clothes and in the heat to the right place! We were very relieved to find the bus had working aircon and was only half full so we...

Blog : Cairns When we got to Cairns airport we were literally exhausted and i doubt many of you will have heard me say this, but being hit by that wall of heat the second we got off the plane, made me want to get back on and go some place freezing! Tierdness, hot and stickiness, two heavy backpacks and a bottle of gin do not mix so good! But we asked around in the arrivals hall for the shuttle bus that would drop us to our hostel and it was all easy enough... W...

Australia We left fiji in the rain, which was sort of nice because it meant wed had the best of the weather over on all of the islands! The journey looming ahead of us however did not look fun... A five hour or so flight to Brisbane, then a twelve hour overnight wait in the airport and another three hours up to Cairns. We were thinking what on earth kind of backpacker nightmare had we got ourselves involved in, booking a next day connecting flight felt like such...

Fiji - Nadi, Bounty, Beachcomber, Mana, Nadi We arrived in Nadi, the international airport on the Fijian main island really early in the morning and it was already about 20 degrees! Amazing!! We used the cash point in the airport and saw that Fiji money has a picture of the Queen on it, tgey must be part of our colony and none of us even realised!! We got picked up by our hostel - Bamboo backpackers and taken to the little site which was right over tge road fr...

LA part two We slept in pretty late on Wednesday as we didnt make it in until about 3am from huntingdon and decided wed chill out for a little bit and then go with Gem after hed finished her lectures at lunchtime to Malibu for a bit of sunning... The weather sort of turned though and it was a lot windier and more clouds in the sky. Being optimistic we all wore bikinis and took our sunbathing towels. We drove up the coast on the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and we...