We have just arrived in our final Australian destination - the very sunny city of Cairns. We have had a very crazy last 2 weeks and so we are happy to spend our last 3 days in Oz chilling out (maybe with a little skydive or something!). I (Camilla) am currently suffering from a second bad case of tonsilitis in 2 weeks, but am on some army-standard antibiotics to sort it out! The photos from our Outback farm stay do not really do justice to all the activities...

G'day! There is not a great deal to report, but I know you are all itching to know what we're doing (!) so here it is: After leaving the very dull Coff's harbour, we made our way to the infamous town of Byron Bay. This is a little surfer/hippy town overrun by backpackers. It had an extremely chilled out atmosphere and we met some really good people in our hostel bar, and took part in pool competitions (Camilla can play pool now, believe it or not!)and generally...

Apologies for the lack of journal entries. We are in a town called Coff's Harbour which is a bit dead and slightly backward (think "Muriel's Wedding"). Our reason for being here was to do a cheap Scuba-diving course in order to get our PADI licences, however, that plan has failed as they don't allow diabetics to dive. Needless to say we are both disappointed and our having to rethink our plans quite a lot. Our stay in Sydney was very good, it is a beautiful and...

Despite our unlimited free internet at our Singapore hostel, we have been very lazy about updating the journal so there is a lot to catch up on. A huge highlight of our Singapore experience was visiting the Zoo. There are no real enclosures so many of the animals, such as the monkeys, are roaming around free. In the evening, we went on the Night Safari where we could wander around in the dark and have close encounters with more nocturnal animals (like the enor...