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Cairns, Queensland
Well we're here. We finally got to Australia (took 5 and a half months to get here). It's a really bizarre experience to be the furthest you can possibly be from home and find that it's just the same as england (culturally speaking not so much the lovely sea and stuff, i think you know what i mean).
We're staying in a nic hostel at the moment (paying about 18 quid a night), we did try staying in dorms but it wasn't for us (it's quite hard to have a cuddle on...