After touching down in Cairns after another speedy flight, we booked ourselves into something a little more comfortable and luxurious (a standard hotel) so that we could organize the last part of our journey. Following our campervan drama, we'd made the final decision - to come home. Little did both our families know though!! Mwahaha. As far as they were aware, things had gone wrong but we had changed our plans accordingly and were still making our way down the E...

Now as some of you know, I'd already decided to go galavanting to the other side of the world before I met Billy. I'd applied for and had my Australian working holiday visa granted, was intending on doing some au pair work for 6 months whilst out there, with maybe just a stop off in Thailand on the way through... (what WAS I thinking?!) As it turns out, Billy was already planning to go on his travels too, so I like to think it was a little bit of fate that brough...

So feeling refreshed after a couple of days in Cairns it was time to head off into the hinterland and start our volunteering in Ravenshoe, which we'd organized about 6 months prior to leaving the UK, with a brilliant scheme called Workaway. Workaway enables both individuals and couples to work a certain amount of hours a day, anywhere in the world, and in return bed and board are provided free of charge by your host. Gwen and Bruce were to be our hosts, and I'd b...

So picture this...a tiny little white 3 door hatchback, with the back seats taken out and an old mattress in it's place. Wooded slats underneath with numerous bits of camping gear to keep us going. Yep this was going to be our home for the next 4 days while we made our way across the Northern Territory to Cairns, Queensland. Rock and roll baby!! Haha. Off we set on our 3000km journey that was made up of literally two extremely looooong conjoining roads driving s...

So after Billy had said his ceremonious farewell to his last cigarette (nearly missing our flight might I add!) we boarded the plane and made ourselves comfy for the next 4 & a half hours. We got chatting to the girl sat by the window, Konnie, who was from Germany.... and we couldn't have had better seats because she was booked into the same hostel as us! As was the girl sat to my left, Jane, who was from Brighton.. Couldn't have been a better coincidence. We...