We made it back from Alice Springs to Melbourne. We got very lost in the dark in Melbourne but eventually, avoiding trams, managed to find our hotel. The following day we drove down to Phillip Island, then onto Lakes Entrance and finally up the coast back into New South Wales to Bateman's Bay and now we're back in Sydney! We have given the hire car back and started to re-pack our backpacks in anticipation of our flight to New Zealand on Saturday morning. Austr...

Our plans of relaxing, seeing a little more of Sydney and heading up to Bathurst during our week of house/dog sitting for Tony & Rosanne were slightly disrupted on Sunday when I (Phillip) had to visit A&E with what turned out to be Appendicitis. I had gone from having slight tummy ache to severe abdominal pain in a few hours. I'm out of hospital now minus my appendix, I'm a little sore and my stomach is swollen (more than usual) and we should still be fi...

After our round trip from Sydney to Adelaide, Adelaide to Melbourne and back to Sydney we have covered over 6350 miles and still only seen a small part of Oz. We are going up to Alice Springs and will drive to Ayres Rock, Kings Canyon and Devil's Marbles from there so lots left to see. We drove through Canberra on the way back to Sydney and took a guided tour of their Parliament building which was interesting, very similar to the House of Commons. We are in Syd...

We have arrived back in Sydney after a few days touring and drinking the Hunter Valley wine region. We are staying with Tony & Rosanne for the weekend then heading over to Adelaide. We've driven 6000km so far and still have over a month left in Oz.

Over the weekend we have made our way south going through Port Macquire where we stopped off for a few days in a great campsite situated on the beach. The weather was not great on Saturday so we headed off to a town called Timbertown. It's a re-inactment of a 1800's timber village. It was a bit bizzare to say the least but it does give you an insight into how the pioneers of that time lived and traded wood and other goods. After being educated for an hour or so w...