And so began our journey down the East coast of Australia, from Cairns in Queensland, all the way down to Sydney. We did this in about two weeks so this leg was pretty rushed and we did a lot of things everyday – I’ll try and pick out the most interesting bits and try not to bore you all to death. Actually our stay in Cairns was pretty memorable. Many people stay here to go diving in the Great Barrier Reef, and that is what we did. We got an early catamaran...

After a little pressure from certain people (et oui les filles vous savez qui vous êtes :) ), I am attempting to make up for lost time and think back to when Maz and I were traipsing around Oz, despite the fact that in actual fact we parted ways some time ago and I am now zooming around New Zealand with my little sister. So, after our photo stop at the Devil's Marbles, we bussed further South, to the city of Alice Springs. Now, despite its' rather pretty name, ...

It has been ages, and although the Australia leg of our trip seems very far away, I thought I'd try and make up for some lost time! So I'll backtrack to the beginning of May when we left balmy Kota Kinabalu and headed to the Northern Australian city of Darwin... We arrived in Darwin at the ungodly hour of 4am after revelling in the delights of Singapore airport (free internet!). We were both pretty excited just to be in Australia to be honest! Darwin has quite a...

OK, attempt number two at writing this, seeing as this computer from the dark ages just crashed and deleted my whole blog post just after I'd finished! So, last week we headed across Borneo to Kota Kinabalu, a lively city by the South China Sea. We had a bit of fun and games trying to find a hostel - no one at the bus station seemed to agree as to which bus we should get, and then said bus didn't turn up. The buses here are worse than in Bristol which is really ...

For the last ten days or so we have been based in Kuching, a city in the Malaysia side of Borneo. It couldn't be more different to Vietnam if it tried. For a start, it is just unbelievably humid - I guess that's what being an island on the Equator covered in tropical rainforest will do. In Vietnam there was a distinct tourist trail (or gringo trail as a Spaniard put it), and we kept bumping into the same people heading from North to South. But over here, there se...