The weather has been amazing the last few days and we both have cute rosy cheeks and not so cute burnt shoulders. You know how much it hurts when someone touches sunburnt skin? Painful right? Now imagine trying to lug 15kg of crap around on lobster shoulders. Not clever. We found that out the hard way when we walked to the bus stop this morning. As you may have guessed from the fact that we're burnt, we've spent the last three days down at the beach. It's easy t...

After umming and ahhing for ages over whether to book up a trip to Ayers Rock we realised that even though it's expensive, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to do it now than it would be to do it later from England. Five minutes after that we were handing over our credit cards and trying not to wince at the amount as we keyed in our pins. It didn't help that we booked up a 4WD camping safari on Fraser Island and a Whitsundays sailing trip at the same time, thus increa...