The search for the Platypus and other stories... Friday 8th - Sunday 17th January, 2010 After our crazy 3 weeks up the east coast, we eased ourselves into the next road trip by taking a business class flight from Cairns to Melbourne - yes, finally all those years of flying to Milan paid back, thank you Unilever and British Airways! As you can imagine we made the most of the journey, starting with using our excess luggage (in the form a lot of gear and our te...

The worst week and a bit ever (well it's all relative) part 3 Even though it was the rainy season, from what I can understand, the rain we were experiencing was unseasonal, it was the remains of a typhoon system that had hit land on the west coast near Broome and was in the process of being spat out the other side of Oz, so it was unfortunate that we happened to be in Queensland at exactly the same time! Thankfully we didn't have anymore floods in our tent fo...

The worst week and a bit ever (well it's all relative) part 2 ...following the rain of the day before, the night was not terribly wet but we woke to pretty dark clouds though no rain, this changed soon after making our way into the zoo, it started to absolutely tip it down with healthy cracks of thunder and a bit of lightning at irregular intervals, this was ok as there were plenty of places to shelter, though by the end of the day my birkenstocks - never gre...

The worst week and a bit ever (well it's all relative) part 1 After having a great time with Scott + Lynsey being spoilt rotten in their fantastic flat that overlooks Tamarama beach it was with trepidation that we set off on the next leg of our trip. We had hired a very small car (a Hyundai Getz called Gary) to take us from the NSW/Queensland border up to Cairns (a distance of over 1800km) all good but sadly due to the Australian government only allowing pensi...

Living the 'Glamarama-rous' life... Thursday 3rd - Monday 14th December The sadness I felt when we were at Auckland airport leaving New Zealand was soon forgotten as I remembered where we were going - I have dreamed of going to Australia for many years, and here I was at last on my way for a 3 month adventure! To get our Sydney visit off to a perfect start we were met at the airport by Scott (a very good uni friend of Frank's who he was best man for 5.5 year...