It is mental that you can fly for nearly 5 hours and still be in the same country! There is literally nothing. You take off in Melbourne then see nothing but outback- bush, rocks, rivers and sand. And I'm not sure, but at one point i think I also saw Rolfe Harris. Couldn't be sure, we were a long way up. Perth started with our croydon mate who we spent Xmas with in Melbourne, picking us up and dropping us off at another croydon mate we spent Xmas with in Melbo...

So after leaving Melbourne and the shepherd family behind, we headed in land on a 4 hour train journey and arrived in proper bush land red dusted Echuca. The destination was Echuca Backpackers working Hostel, which was meant to provide work for all rent paying guests. Unfortunately for us, the mixture of the Harvest being late and thus being no fruit to pick, and the landlord being a total first class p****meant that the "working" Hostel quickly turned into a...

It all started with a pizza shop and an idea..... The rota went up and we had disappointingly few shifts for the week ahead. "Let's go camping" and so it began. What started as a 2day camping trip turned into a let's hire a campervan, sack off work for a week and drive the great ocean road road trip!! I have to mention at this point that Nic's brother Matt was vital to making this all happen as he generously contributed to our camper costs! So we were off with v...

So we have been in Melbourne for exactly a month today. The weird Asian day to day shinanigans seem a distant memory and that sweet sweet taste of Orange Fanta only visits me in my dreams.... We arrived in Melbourne at around stupid o'clock in the morning after an overnight Quantas flight from Singapore. Both so grateful to be on a proper plane after all our experiences in the Philippines and AirAsia winged prisons. It was amazing to be greated by Michele, who ...

Singapore was a flying visit really. En- route to melbourne, we opted to spend a few more days in KL instead as it was more reasonably priced, and we wanted to ride the monorail while singing the 'monorail' song from the Simpsons as you do. "Mono.... Doh!!" We definitely made the right choice as the 'hovel'... I mean hostel we stayed at in Singapore was only bearable for the one night! 12 bunkbeds, 1200 bedbugs YUK! Our budget unfortunately didn't stretch to ...