With our travels back on track, we set off for Surfers Paradise swapping our rain mac's for sun cream and our umbrellas for beach towels. The sun was out and the air con was back on for the relatively short drive. We stopped off at a place called Sanctuary Cove, which turned out to be a lovely marina with multi million dollar yachts and over priced undersized chocolate cakes! It was nice to see how the other half lived in a place where no matter if you went in ...

After the last couple of days being a bit of a disappointment, we didn't want to miss out on much more and decided to make Brisbane our safe haven till the storm died out. It didn't take us long to settle down in a nice place on the outskirts of town, so we went for a walk and wandered the streets of the very metropolitan city. A film was well overdue so we checked into the cinema and watched "The Watchmen", which was mediocre although well filmed. ...

So far we have decided to not have a set timetable and have only really aimed to be in Melbourne for our departure. So the length of time we have spent in each place has been a reflection on how much we have enjoyed it or how practical it was. We decided to have an itinerary for the route down to Brisbane to spice things up a bit, but all that soon got thrown straight out the window. Now please forgive me as it is 4 o'clock in the morning and having just bee...

The next chapter of our story begins back in Cairns where we spent the whole day after our drive back from Port Douglas. We took some time to gather ourselves as the last few days were really draining, coping with the hot sun and warm seas! We had been in contact with friends from back home - Kara and Jason - who just so happened to arrive at the same time so we met up for drinks. They have been travelling for a bit longer then us and had hired a campervan to t...

So have you missed us? Sorry about the belated update but things have been, shall we say a little hectic! Last time we spoke, we had a long journey to overcome, which in total took us 34 hours of non-stop travelling. It was pretty eventful; buses breaking down, Thai dubbed films, surreal roadside food halls and three flights that we boarded on time. We eventually arrived at 8 o'clock in the morning and our journey of Australia swiftly began. We arranged a hire...