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...