We arrived in Cairns on Wednesday evening...5 days later, we're still waiting for the rain to stop so we can actually leave the bloody hostel! It has rained almost non-stop since we arrived, and it's still hotter than the west! So unfortunately, we've done no sightseeing, no snorkelling and Becks hasn't been able to go diving cos of the crap visibilty. We're sharing a six-bed dorm with 3 Germanians who won't speak to us and hate us for no apparant reason (...

Good news Aunty Shaz and Uncle Chris, Natalie has met the man she is going to marry!!! Hes very pretty, has nice teeth, lots of hair and works on the backpackers information desk. We're not sure what he's called but he's very polite and we imagine his name is Dave. Its going very well so far, we've seen him twice now and Nat even managed to say thankyou to him without mumbling incoherently or generally falling over - RESULT! The hostel we're staying in is...

We got the Greyhound from Brisbane to Surfers yesterday morning, it rained all the way!! The nice young man behind the backpacker info counter called our hostel to get their mini bus to pick us up. They forgot about us.... so 40 mins later he called them again and we were officially on our way. This hostel has a pool and a hot tub, we watched from the window as the rain poured into them! We are sharing with 2 scandinavian birds who don't talk to us and have s...

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...