So it has been over 2 months since I did my final travels around Australia with Nicki in the campervan, and all I can say is that it has been so crazy and busy that I haven't had time to tell you all about it…sorry! Now it won't be as detailed as I would have liked but here's the score.

We started our big adventure up the east coast of the country in a Spaceship, not an alien spaceship but a campervan which we were to live in for 5 weeks. It was really cool, bright orange, had a double bed, and fridge, DVD player, cooking facilities and an awning so that you can sleep out the back of the car. Such a great idea, much better than being stuck on a bus with people telling you where to go and at what time. It gave us flexibility and we could randomly stop off at places if they looked interesting or bypass places if we had stayed there for long enough. We were Thelma and Louise driving the open roads! The first stop on our travels was Port Macquarie, a small seaside town that was half way between Sydney and Byron Bay. It was such a cute little town with rock breakers all along the beach front painted by anyone and everyone with love messages and proverbs - really cool. Our first up close encounter with koalas came the next day at the Billabong Koala Breeding Reserve where we sadly didn't get to hold one (it isn't legal to do so apart from in Queensland) but we could stroke them and get in some photos. They look so lazy strewn over branches asleep and there were even some little babies there clambering around! They sleep for about 20 hours a day and then eat eucalyptus leaves for the other 4.

The next day we headed out up to Byron Bay for 3 nights and stayed in the Arts Factory, a really cool hippy hostel where Charley Boorman stayed. There are different types of rooms you can sleep in - pods, tents, dorms, a London bus and a teepee. We opted for the quirky teepee which sounds all good apart from the rain seeping in on me while it basically rained for 2 out of the 3 days. But all was still fun, we walked along the beach and visited the hippy shops along the high street. Apparently it used to have really traditional hippy shops but now there are all the high street chain stores which take away from the atmosphere I thought there would be. After a night out at Cheeky Monkeys (another bar you can dance on the tables at - loving it!) Nicki and I went to get our tarots read. We thought 'when in Rome' so got them read by the most hippy lady I think I've ever see. Still not sure whether I believe in all that jazz but I suppose time will tell whether it all comes true. Later that afternoon we went on an Aboriginal cultural walk around the hostel with Cockatoo Paul…some crazy dude at the hostel with a shaved head and long strand of hair at the back with a feather in it, like a cockatoo! He made us eat grass and leaves and taught us how to survive and recognize trees and plants if we needed food, as if we were in the outback and true Aboriginals. The next morning we got up bright and early at 5am to watch the sunrise over the most easterly point on the mainland of Australia - Cape Byron. This was one of the points where Captain Cook landed and there is a beautiful lighthouse to commemorate this. The final day before we headed up to Surfers Paradise that evening was a trip to the hippy town of Nimbin, where Marijuana is seemingly legal or perhaps the local police are too high themselves to really crack down on it! You walk the streets and get offered drugs by everyone, or so we heard because you will be pleased to hear that I think we looked too innocent to be offered any. The whole town is in a time warp and lives off the fact that people go there to buy drugs. Is a cool place to go if you want hippy clothes or drugs memorabilia but not really anything to do there. After a long day we hit the road in our camper and headed to the surf city of Surfers Paradise….