So the last time I blogged we were at Trial Bay where we spent three great nights and it's a place that we're likely to return to at some point in the future. We left Trial Bay early on the Sunday morning having decided that Byron would be our next stop but wanting to drive through the Dorrigo rainforest and Coffs Harbour on route. The drive to Dorrigo was longer than expected and I was left hoping that the rainforest and associated skywalk lived up to the the ...

The story continues, Iain bless him picked up the car from Fortitude Valley in Brisbane and came back to pick me and the cases (which seem to have got a lot heavier) up at the hotel. We have a Mitsubishi 380 in red and Iain looks right at home behind the wheel, it's an automatic and very easy to drive (I had a little go in a car park). We set off down for Surfers Paradise where as I'm a backseat driver at the best of times, I reminded myself of my mother when D...

As promised your next installment, we left Airlie Beach and flew into Brisbane on Sunday and were both really looking forward to seeing city life. The first thing we noticed was the rain (alledgedly according to the notices in all Queensland hotels they are experiencing a drought however it has not stopped raining since we arrived! However it is very warm still, flip flop weather (or thongs as they call them over here - I'll keep throwing the lingo in as we go)...

As promised your next installment, we left Airlie Beach and flew into Brisbane on Sunday and were both really looking forward to seeing city life. The first thing we noticed was the rain (alledgedly according to the notices in all Queensland hotels they are experiencing a drought however it has not stopped raining since we arrived! However it is very warm still, flip flop weather (or thongs as they call them over here - I'll keep throwing the lingo in as we go). ...

Hi all, another quick update for you all, although I'm a few days behind now! We left Daydream Island on 31st Jan and headed across to the mainland, Airlie Beach, which was lovely, a really chilled out place. We were staying at the Island View BB which was great and just like it was on the internet. Our room had a lovely sea view which included the marina (from a distance as we were pretty high up - in fact by the time we had walked back to the bb on at night I f...