We ended our time in Australia exactly where we started - in the pishing down rain in Brisbane! After a five hour grey hound ride (the last of the numb bums for a while) we met up with Lenny our stalker, and headed for a chinese take-away for our farewell meal. It went down a storm and made the bean eaters backpackers in the communal kitchen v jealous. It was washed down with a box of goon and was about as emotional as you can get over a beverage that may incl...

Singapore airport is supposed to be one of the best shopping airports in the world. WE WOULDN'T KNOW. We had to post home some things from the airport, but the post office in the terminal we were flying from would only allow you to send letters. We traipsed over to the other terminal only to find the slowest wrapper upper in the east who was going to spend the next million hours packaging our stuff! On the way back, two Japanese girls managed to take me out a...