After the Backpacker's mecca that is the East Coast, we took a short flight to Australia's Northern most city, the tropical Darwin. Although we had spent the last 7 months in very good weather you really don't get used to the extreme heat and humidity of the Tropical North. This was supposedly the end of the Summer Wet-Season and begining of the cooler winter months. However, its pretty hard to notice when the temp exceeds 35 degree every day! After caning our b...

G'Day Mate! Yeah that's right we are now 'Down Under", Okay enough of the cheesyness… We arrived in Melbourne on the 26th of February and spent a couple of days there. One night we met up with Nick and Prue, a couple we met on the Inca trail. They took us out for amazing Thai food and quite a few drinks at a very funky bar. Thanks again for a great night! After that we took a night bus to Sydney. We had trouble finding accommodation for that weekend bec...

We found Nemo in Fiji!!!! Bula! (hello) We had a great 'holiday' in Fiji. A week of relaxing from travelling...weird? Castaway, Love Island and survivor is all set in the islands of Fiji. So you get the picture! We visited 2 islands in the Yasawa island chain. The first one was 5 hours by boat from the mainland. It was called Tavewa and that is a proper deserted island, you can't get much closer to Robinson Crusoe then that (check out the pics I found a Robins...

Hello Everyone I am now going to tell you the story of "Womens Brain's" virgin journey through New Zealand. We first met Womens Brain in a garage in Christchurch. She is a "wicked camper van". A Toyota people carrier, but remade in to a van! Old car, but the inside was brand new. Two seats in the front. In the back we have, in daytime, the "lounge" ( two sofas and table) and , in night time, a surprisingly spacious bed. The best fea...

Hello again! 5 months in South America is now over and we have finally arrived in New Zealand, after much stress and uncertainty. I'll come back to that shortly. We were so pleased to arrive in NZ. Great to be understood and speak English again. Being in a city that doesn't smell! We actually walked around a supermarket for an hour just looking at all the things we missed and we bought a few treats as well! Auckland is great, lots of cool bars, shops and restaur...