We took an over night flight from Perth to Melbourne and arrived at our accomodation by around 8am. Having had a typically poor nights sleep, being spent on a plane, we spent most of our first day hanging around the hostel and the local area trying not to fall asleep too early! The second of our three days in Melbourne didn't give us the chance for that much needed ly in, unfortunately, as we booked oursleves onto what turned out to be a very long day trip out ...

After a pretty bad show from the Virgin blue airline and around 12 hours from airport to airport we finally made it from Cairns to Perth. Being a no frills airline we didn't have too many expectations to start with but we were both taken a back when we got on the first of our two connecting flights and found that even tho we were flying for 4hrs over the lunchtime period the plane barely had enough food on board to serve the first few rows, let alone the res...

Well we are finally back on the road again but with one small difference, this time we are ENGAGED!!! We left Sydney on the 27th September on our journey up the east coast of Australia, stopping at various towns along the way until we reached Cairns. After a lot of thought and more budgeting than either of us would have liked to do we finally decided to go with the cheapest possible way of seeing the east cost rather than what might possibly have been a mor...

Well we've made it to Australia! Our plans were to keep moving and not stop till we got to Brisbane, where we would get some work and settle down, but once we arrived in Sydney everything seemed to fall into place so we will be hanging around here for a while! We have settled in an area of Sydney called Darlinghurst and our lodge is in between Kings cross and the city centre so we can walk to anywhere we need to or catch public transport. Having seen lots of ot...

We waved goodbye to Wellington and the North island on the morning of 15th April and jumped on the interisland ferry across to Picton in the South island. Once we arrived on dry land we met up with our new coach and travelled a few hours south to Nelson, this was to be our first stop in the south island. Our south island journey includes the following: NELSON - We spent two nights here as we were hoping to spend some time trekking across the Abel Tasman Nat...