Goodbye Australia...Hello Asia! Thought I would give you all a quick update of my first 24 hours in Asia... So QF1 Sydney to Bangkok, luckily for me Qantas decided not to strike! I somehow managed to bag myself 4 extra legroom seats (bliss!) and therefore the plan of not sleeping and trying to stay awake completely went out of the window!! 4 glasses of sparkling wine down, a full meal and ice cream and that was me pretty much out like a light for a good few h...

Sydney to Melbourne: After leaving Cairns, I arrived back into Sydney and stayed one night at the YHA Central...a nice hostel and one that I had stayed in before. I had been up since 3am...dealt with the incredibly rude Jetstar check-in lady, had my bag scanned three times, myself fully scanned for explosives and a really rough, turbulent flight! Needless to say I took a long afternoon nap in my Sydney hostel! About 4pm I took a walk to visit Richard who is wo...

After the eventful coach journey we checked into our hotel, showered and arranged to meet Jess for dinner. We opted for Thai and checked for recommendations at the hotel reception. The restaurant we went to was yummy, Pad Thai was awesome and then we headed back to the hostel to plan a route for the start of our road trip the next day! We woke up early the next day and picked up our hire car before setting off North to a place called Port Douglas. Port Dougl...

After a busy few days in Airlie beach we left and caught the Greyhound bus to Townsville, gateway to Magnetic Island. We arrived in Townsville around lunchtime and caught the 2pm ferry which was quite rough! Then it was a simply hop on the local bus to a place called Bungalow Bay. Our room/hut was cute! We booked a 3bedroom dorm but we were lucky enough to have it to ourselves for 2night out of the 3. The first afternoon we checked in and relaxed before headin...

Airlie Beach!! Finally! So we arrived early,about 8am and walked to our hostel which we could check into straight away! Awesome,this meant we could sleep! We went to bed for a few hours then woke up,showered and headed to reception to book some tours. We decided to do a combo package which was a 1day Great Barrier Reef tour and 1day sailing the Whitsunday Islands.Once these were all booked we headed into town,checked out some of the shops then headed to a bar f...