G'day Mate! We arrived on Magnetic Island late afternoon on Friday and settled at X Base Backpackers, a place recommended to us by many. We were allocated two beds in an eight bed dorm joining another English girl and a group of five Irish. We spent the evening in the bar having a few drinks with our new roomies and retired to our beds at half ten for an early-ish night. We awoke and started our only full day on the island by strolling to the supermarket and ...

G'day Mate! We have started our Aussie adventure and we love it already! We arrived in Cairns after an overnight flight from Singapore via Darwin which was made more eventful by Kie suffering a nose bleed during landing! Once we arrived at Cairns we picked a hostel out of our Lonely Planet, Bellview, and headed towards a transfer coach. We arrived at Bellview Hostel and discovered, for the first time on the trip, that we wouldn't be sharing a room as they were...

Hey Everyone, As we are now ending the South East Asia part of our trip we thought we'd give a brief round up of our thoughts, likes and dislikes of what we've experienced over the last three months. Asia is obviously a very different culture from the Western world but what surprised us the most was their lack of health and safety measures, but in a weird way how well this works showing how OTT the English standards really are. A few examples; • People carry...

Hey Everyone! So we're leaving Asia behind us and heading to Australia today. We're sad to be leaving South East Asia, where the last three months have shown us some amazing sights and we've had such a great time but we're really excited to be moving onto Australia. Singapore has gently eased us into moving to Australia as it is a mixture of Asian and Western culture. It is highly influenced by the West but also has a lot of Chinese, Singaporean and Indian i...

Hey again everyone, After three nights in Koh Lanta we headed towards Phuket. The boat we got on at Koh Lanta was headed to Phi Phi which meant we had to stop in the middle of the sea and hop across to another boat which was headed for Phuket. Definitely a first for both of us - and something you'd only ever really see in South East Asia! Once we arrived in Phuket we jumped on a pre paid air conditioned minibus which, after a mix up with guesthouses (first he to...