After dragging ourselves away from the home comforts of Tropical Days and saying a teary goodbye to Gabe and Micelle not to mention the cleaners and other guests.Our first stop was the local Coles and shopping for our daily feeds!Our van has a little fridge which is a lifesaver as the 'eskys' need filling with ice everyday and sometimes drench everything you have!We decided to head in land a little and start off in the lush green hills of the Atherton Tablelands,...

After spending about 5 days mincing about tropical Days and pretending to each other that we were 'jetlagged' we finally pulled out our fingers (with the help if Julia) and decided to head up to cape Tribulation for the weekend, seen as the van wasn't ready until Monday, we hired a car and decided to split the cost, about 5 minutes before the taxi arrived to take up to the car rental place we got talking to another guy (Iain) who decided to split the cost even mo...

Well we were off to a flyer on our first visit to Oz (which i can safely say there will be plenty more). After a long long tiring flight overnight Via Darwin we jumped off the plane smelling a little and looking slightly scruffy well i was anyway (Jack doesn't sweat as much as me, even on six hour treks she is bone dry). We visited our first hostel which was full, but they sent us to their sister hostel Tropic Days so we headed there, and were nicley put into a t...

Well seen as we are now completely in a comfort zone where everyone speaks our language we thought we would do a sum up of South East Asia.We are feeling sentimental in the back of the van, which has now been nicknamed 'OzBubble/Arse Bubble, the first by Jack and the latter by a very eccentric Dutch man, don't blame me I wanted something more manly like Bruce!Anyway we can't believe how quick the last 3 and a half months have gone.From arriving on Koah San Road w...

Gili Tarawangan is one of 3 islands, 2 of them are meant to be quite quiet and the other (Tarawangan) is the liveliest, we chose the one furthest out so it took us 12 hours to get there which we weren't too impressed with as the lady at the Hotel said we would be there for 2pm.We were picked up at 6am and got there at 6pm, it was such a stressful day with getting on a minibus, getting to the dock and the boat not leaving for over an hour so we were forced to eat ...