Bangkok is the most amazing place. Granted I've only explored a tiny bit of it so far but the city chaos is amazing, I am in the middle of all those images of chaotic asian streets that you see on tv - smoky old buses, tuk tuks all over the place and motorbike taxis that defy the laws of staying alive. Been and visited a few Wats (temples), again absolutely amazing, you have never seen so much ceramic, glass and gold mosaic in your life! The famous huge ...

Denham is a tiny town with one street, ana mazing local pub with all the usual characters in and all of their portraits above the bar! There are 2 amazing things here, the first is sitting in a naturally hot 40 degrees hot tub in the middle of the outback looking at the stars with a glass of wine in your hand. The second is up at Monkey Mia (no monkeys) standing in ankle deep water with wild dolphins swimming and nuzzling around you. Met some great...

We headed north towards rainforest and passes through more sugar cane and banana plantations than I have ever seen. We passed through Tully which proudly proclaims itself as 'The wettest place in Australia'...the sun was shining hard and it was 30+ degrees.... We hired a car for 3 days to travel around northern Queensland, Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and the Atherton Tablelands. It's a shame we didn't have more time because it was stunning up there. W...

Spent a fab day yesterday kayaking around the 'mole' islands (I kid you not!) doing snorkelling and seeing sting ray and amazing fish and coral formations, but fortunately no stingers (jelly fish of the most dreadful) and exploring coastlines with a clan of people from Lancashire and Manchester - I dunno, you come half way round the world and find someone around the corner! I've also been on an Americas cup challenger racing at the local sailing club which was k...

From Noosa we headed up to 'The Rock' - Rockhampton has nothing happening in it but was founded on cattle ranching where they created a new breed of cow called a braford - a cross between a hereford and a brahum or so my mum has informed me on her research. Like I said, nothing there and we had taken an ovenight bus which got us at this thoroughly scintilating place at 3.30am...the servo (service station)is not very exciting for 4 hours let me tell you! The bonu...