Many apologies again for the ever growing gap in the Blog entries, we shall try to fill you in on the past couple of weeks as much as possible. We survived Bundaberg and the hostel's poor excuse for a bed, the Bundaberg Rum Distillery was good to walk around however Siobhan ended up consuming more than her fair share of the stuff (with particular fondness to Bundaberg Liquor). We got the bus out of the town on Thursday for a short journey to Hervey Bay prior to...

Hey there! Just thought we'd give you all a little update :) The reef was amazing- our trip had been upgraded beacause we obviously looked so classy (NAAAAT) and we loved life on our little boat. We visited the Michaelmas Cay coral island on the Great Barrier Reef where we got to snorkel and see lots and lots of fish/other things, not too sure how the underwater photos will turn out but we've put the film in for processing today. We had to wear stinger suits by ...

AUSTRALIA! Many apologies for the lack of blogging- Hannah has been an extremely bad influence! Ahhh St. Patrick's Day- after walking round Melbourne for hours and hours in search of green tshirts we eventually found some for about $2 which we destroyed with Irish banter then headed for O'Reilly's on Chapel Street. The Irish band, Guinness and shots were flowing… life was good. The next day was not, we found the largest portion of chips in Australia to munch o...

Firstly let us apologise for our previous blog entry, we have received feedback advising this wasn't the easiest to understand so we will endeavour to make better use of our literacy skills from now on. We have enjoyed our final week in New Zealand and this blog was written whilst sitting in Christchurch Airport (unaffected by the recent earthquake). We have handed Timo the Campervan back to the rental company - our cleaning skills were questioned but we manag...

Welcome to our 2nd blog installment - yes we are as surprised by this as you are! After waking in Rotorua it was discovered that the Northerners had followed us bareing gifts of bread and cheese. Whilst Kate hid, Siobhan and the guy from Bolton spoke northern for a while. Next we ventured to the Maori settlement of Te Puia and had a hot day watching various displays and hot water volcanoes. Kate particularly enjoyed the plopping mud and has vast quantities of ph...