Hello, Been a while since we've done an update and boy have we been busy? (Yes) We continue to rack up the air miles and are now in New Zealand. A slight twist to our trip here as we've stopped using hostels as our main accommodation, and buses/trains as our main transport. Instead, to mix it up a bit we've hired a campervan which will be our kitchen, bed and transport for the next month. Our van is great. On one side a sunset that has been spray-painted on, a...

Our desert odyssey over, it was time to return to the western world, to let our hair down and party: Sydney. In a marvellous piece of efficiency and planet care by the airline Qantas it was considerably cheaper to fly from Alice Springs to Sydney via Melbourne (using two planes) rather than flying direct (I think they have been working in partnership with BA for too long). Anyway in Melbourne something was 'odd' or 'different' and it took a while to work out wha...

After our fantastic trip round Kakadu, we set our sights on that great Australian icon ... no not Kylie but Uluru (or Ayers Rock as it used to be known). Now Australia is huge, not just big, but huge. It took us three days to travel from the far north Darwin down to Alice Spring (from where we then blasted out to Uluru). The trip down was great for showing us the scale of the country (did we mention it was big) and for letting us see some of the lesser known sig...

"Crikey, Blimey, Strewth, She's a beutty, Crocs rule, that's a close one, s*** a stingray" All popular catch phrases of the late great Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter (aka Australia's Diana). Now Steve (god rest his soul) as well as making crazy animal documentaries also had a zoo near Brisbane, so as we were passing, we thought it would make a great day out. I mean what says fun better than a combination of dead celebrity and animals - whoo hoo. So Aus...

G'day. After a few weeks on the coast it was time to experience the other side of Australia. So a cheap flight halfway across the country (only 4 hours!) and we're in Darwin. Darwin is ... well a bit of a dump. It has a port, a couple of half-attempts at tourist attractions but is really quite sleepy and small. Like a few places in Australia the town is particularly ugly and from a town planning point of view pretty awful. (Admittedly one of the reasons for th...