The Camper Van Adventures..Chapter 2.. Neil Diamond ruined my lifeDay two in the van had echoes of day one... Unable to find the campsite, got on the motorway in the wrong direction etc... But in comparison it was a great success. We found ourselves pitching up and camping out for the first time in a place called 'The Entrance' just north of Sydney.We'd spent the day driving around the Blue Mountains National Park and seeing some of its famous sites before ...

The Camper Van Adventures.. Chapter 1.. The Lonely Planet Lies To quote the Lonely Planet "the opportunities for camping in national parks and more comfortable camping in private camping grounds is abundant, and you'll be hard pressed not to find either on a nightly basis"..well, we proved them wrong !! It was a strange 24 hours for us, from our last night in Sydney to our first night in our camper van (or what was meant to be our first night in...

From 'Flashpackers' to dorm rooms.. Sydney We touched down in Sydney a little worse for wear and not wanting to do anything but get to our room and go to bed... Only problem was in Sydney it was just our room, this was our first hostel/dorm room experience. What a day to be submerged into the world of bunk beds, cockroaches and naked French men! We were staying in Stratton Hostel in a 6-bed mixed dorm, which according to Lodge, looked and smelt like Matthew's b...

Cricket, Kangaroo Steak and a missed flight... Melbourne We arrived in melbourne dazed and tired having missed a nights sleep and left three days later n much the same state- only this time it was self inflicted! We had just three days in Melbourne to explore and its a shame we didn't have longer as we both really loved the city. We were staying with Lodge's friend Steve in his apartment in St Kilda and it was so nice to be in a home rather than a hotel/garage...

I'm sort of a big deal around here...Gili Trawangan There are some things you just have to do when you're in the Gili Islands...you have to rent a bike complete with basket and bell and have the most fun circumnavigating the island, you have to meet Jeremy Clarkson in a bar and have him offer you his boat to stay on in Sydneym you have to have cocktails and edemame beans every afternoon on the beach and you might have to swim back to Bali if the petrol on your b...