After our amazing camper van experience and zipping all over Australia we were in need of some R & R and luckily Fiji was our next stop. We arrived to a Fijian band greeting us at the airport (think: hawaii-style) on a beautiful hot sunny day which was great after the cold of south-east Oz. After a short bus ride to our hotel we headed to our Bura (bungalow) with a spring in our step. Unfortunately our first night was disrupted by the noisy road behind us ...

Canberra was a bit of a ghost stop for us really as we didn't actually see any of it! This 100 year old 'planned city' (that is basically the result of Melbourne and Sydney not being able to decide who should be capital) was our base for catching up on blog postings, booking somewhere to stay in Fiji and LA and doing our tax rebates...exciting stuff!! Some people go to the National Library to look around, we went for the free internet and cheap printing. It was a...

After switching all our gear from one crappy camper to another crappy camper (but with all the doors working) we made our way a few hours down to Byron Bay. Everyone goes to Byron Bay it seems. The place was choc a bloc with young thin 20 somethings (so we fitted right in), but next to no one in the sea as it was bit fresh. The town was pretty laid back and people seemed pretty carefree, just wandering round saying "dude" and "bro" and other far-out things. The b...

Before we start on these Aussie postings, I'll just put something in perspective (because we didn't util we got here!) The drive we are on down the cost is roughly equal to driving from the north of Scotland to the bottom of Greece. In a month. So you can imagine it is pretty full on and action-packed, so I apologise for the monster posts. The flight overnight to Brisbane was unremarkable apart form the fact for once Brett did not sleep and the fact that there w...