I suprisingly quite liked Brisbane as far as cities go. We went just for the day to meet up with a German couple we'd made good mates with in New Zealand. We found a geat bar with live music and settled in for the night. I somehow managed to spontaneously throw my drink over Tom (much to the amusement of everyone else - apart from Tom!) At the end of the night in our casuals - shorts and flip-flops, the boys tried for a laugh to get into one of the numerous c...

Typically it rained the whole of the first day on the road, which put a bit of a dampner on the mood, but meant that we actually covered far more distance on day one than we anticipated. We also got a better insight into the scale of the driving we were about to take on having driven all day and covered a pewny couple of cm's on our huge Oz map and probably the entire length of the UK! We drove until wherever we happened to be at sunset, which found us in a s...

Back in Sydney we started preparing for the arrival of Tom's brother Gaz and mate - Ben. We made them a lovely sign to greet them at the airport, edged with balloons and waited with it at the barrier. They got through Austrailias ruthless customs in record time, probably becuse they had their duty-frees confiscated in Hong-Kong, and looked pretty perky considering the lengthy flight and hiddeous time difference. i think they were just pleased to see us! We dr...

Fiji was just awesome. Tom and I took an island hopping ferry around a group of islands called the Yasawas. Stepping off the plane was like stepping into an oven. We were greeted with guitar playing, floral shirts and beaming smiles. We soon got a feeling for how things work here. "fiji time," they call it. Basically there's no rush to do anything. The first island we visited was Nanuya lai lai, a 4hr ferry journey from the mainland. To get fro...

Fiji was just awesome. Tom and I took an island hopping ferry around a group of islands called the Yasawas. Stepping off the plane was like stepping into an oven. We were greeted with guitar playing, floral shirts and beaming smiles - the mood was set. The first island we visited was Nanuya lai lai, a 4hr ferry journey from the mainland. To get from the ferry to the island we had to board a tiny fishing boat as the waters around the island are very shallow in pla...