Today is our last day in Cairns.  We had a great day yesterday and witnessed the closing ceremony of the Cairns Festival. We watched a rubber duck race, which wasn't exactly a race as they had to use powered blowers to get them to move down the lagoon!!! We also watched the street parade on the evening which was really good, loads of floats and local kids dressed up.  The main attraction was one of the security guards trying to keep the ro...

So its been 4 weeks since we left Sydney..."what have you been up to" we hear you all ask.... We headed up to the Blue Mountains in our Camper van and spent a couple of days up there wandering around the sights and looking at the Three Sisters. We were pretty impressed with the place as we didn't expect it so close to Sydney. After that we went to the Hunter Valley and did some wine tasting on a day tour, so we didn't have to drive. We visited about 5...

Arrived in Sydney safe and sound. We have done loads of things since we got here. Our hotel is very nice, it overlooks Hyde Park, it has a roof top pool and spa which we are going to sample this evening after dinner. On the 15th we went to look at the harbour and wandered around to look at the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House which is quite impressive, the roof is made out of individual tiles. On the 16th we had a walk around the b...

We have spent the last four days with Richard, Araminta, Kaidyn and Jehd in Melbourne. On the day that we arrived we sat in the airport for ages waiting for our transport to arrive...Ha Ha....Araminta didn't know what we looked like and we didn't know what she looked like and she didn't want to hold up a naff sign with our names on so needless to say it took a while for us to meet up. We settled into our movie star mansion quite comfortably. On the...

We had a lovely time in Kaikoura - visited their Winery and had a tour around the cellars and did some tastings (not like us), it was right on the top of a hill overlooking the bay - very picturesque. Drove to Christchurch 3 days ago and handed the van back and checked into the hostel. It hasn't stopped raining for the whole time we have been in Christchurch. We have been holed up in the hostel eating pizza and drinking beer for most of the time, which is...