So, five months, 22 and a half weeks and 159 days later, I'm back in England! It feels very odd to be writing an entry from Chislehurst, but I felt I should finish the blog off with a quick recap of what I did in my final week in America. It was sad to wave goodbye to Emily and Will and it made me a little jealous to know they were only a third of the way through their trip when I was so near the end of mine! I had lots of fun and lots of relaxation in that last...

Happy Friday the 13th! I'm in California now, though nowhere near San Francisco, but the STA travel blogs library selection for California wasn't very broad. I arrived here on Saturday and have been staying with my friend Katelin in San Clemente, Orange County, for the past week. I have another week here before returning home, which is an exciting and scary prospect. The rest of my time in Fiji was a mixture of activity and relaxation. I learnt to make jewelle...

I have just started my bus tour around the main island of Fiji, Viti Levu. I arrived in Fiji on Saturday night and so far am loving it; on Sunday I visited two tiny islands, South Sea Island and Bounty Island, which were like a tropical paradise. The latter was used in the celebrated British TV show "Celebrity Love Island", which is a claim to fame if ever I heard one, and the former could be walked around in under five minutes, which is just the so...

I am restarting this entry having almost finished it a moment ago and then losing it all because the computer at my hostel is rubbish - Alice Springs hasn't made the best impression on me so far!! I flew in here today and it felt a little strange getting on a plane after all the long coach journeys, but I'm sure to have plenty of time on the road in the next week as I travel up to Darwin. I left you last about to go on my Whitsundays sailing trip and I'm pleased...

Currently in Airlie Beach, about to go on my two day sailing trip of the Whitsundays, which I'm looking forward to providing my seasickness tablets work ok. It feels like I'm squeezing in so many activities on my way up the East Coast and the time is flying; I fly to Alice Springs from Cairns a week today. Finally it's hot - I think I achieved a bit of classy sunburn yesterday. Unfortunately I spent the past few days mainly on a coach looking at the sun out of ...