November 2012
3 posts
March 2011
1 post
On to the West Coast via the Red Centre
One part of Australia I had been really looking forward to was Ayers Rock. On Tuesday 1st March I caught a flight from Cairns to Ayers Rock Resort. The Resort was pretty amazing, basically a cluster of hotels and shops in the middle of the desert with a tiny little airport next door. I stayed in the Outback Pioneer, a YHA hostel, but it was in a hotel complex so I had access to a nice pool!...
February 2011
1 post
The End of the East Coast
So, the top of the East coast has been reached! After an epic two and a half months of travelling by campervan from Melbourne, I am now in Cairns, and as if Mother Nature is congratulating me, the sun is shining.. Not. I am currently sat in my hostel, Gilligans, watching the rain pound against the windows, with a load of backpackers behind me watching the TV because there is absolutely nothing...
January 2011
3 posts
The End of Sheila's Journey
So Sheila the trusty Jucy Campa is now gone, after an amazing three weeks exploring the coast between Sydney and Brisbane. We still haven’t quite reached Brisbane, having dropped it off there we went back on ourselves a bit. But I’ll start where I left off two weeks ago..
Port Macquarie was awesome, we checked out on the Tuesday and went to Ricardo’s Tomato’s! A tomato and...
The start of the East Coast...
So, the van was picked up, which involved a huge barter over insurance as funnily enough they were reluctant to let me leave with a $30,000 van with only basic insurance… The outcome was they gave me rather a large sum of money off the upgraded insurance, but it was the free picnic table that really swayed me ;)
Our first stop was Mudgee, which was about four horus inland from Sydney, to...
Sydney
One of the last trips we made in Melbourne before moving onto Sydney was to the Great Ocean Road. Johnny, Lucy and I drove Johnnys car down the spectacular coastal road, which hugs the sea almost the whole way. Driving down the winding road in the beautiful sunshine was a fantastic experience, and we stopped at several beautiful beaches along the way. This was really the first glorious sunshine we...
December 2010
5 posts
Melbourne
Hello Australia! Melbourne has been a city of shopping and drinking with the Irish! Lucy and I have been lucky enough to stay with a friend of ours we met in Thailand, and we have been here a week now. The weather has been unexpectedly dull here, with even a bit of rain! So much for the unbearable heat we were warned about in South East Asia - it was actually hotter there! We have been told it...
Our Top Ten South East Asia Experiences
1. Riding a moped around Koh Samui.
2. Sunbathing in Angthong Marine Park on a postcard perfect beach.
3. Standing in the shallow sea on Koh Phangan watching the sun go down with a beer in hand and fish swimming around our feet!
4. Sat at the edge of the ocean watching the sunrise over the sea from Haad Rin Beach after a long nights partying at the Full Moon Party!
5. Trekking for two days in...
Cambodia/Cambodge/Kampuchea
Our trip to Cambodia was short and sweet, being only six days in total, but it was a great week. Cambodia is a country of contrast, the rich are clearly silly rich - we saw many young girls being driven around in posh 4x4’s and lunching at nice cafes - and the poor are some of the poorest we have seen in south east asia. The country is full of street kids who grab onto you and don’t...
Bye Bye Vietnam
I am currently sat waiting for a bus to Cambodia, so I thought I would do one last blog in Vietnam about our trip today to the Mekong Delta! A very short update, we were up early for a 7.30 pickup and we got a minibus down to My Tho. From there, we got a wooden boat across the river to the island of Ben Tre. There we sampled an array of tropical fruit, saw a bee keeping farm where we tried honey...
The curse of Vietnamese buses
I am writing this from Saigon, our very last stop in Vietnam. I am absolutely roasting sat in the reception area of our guesthouse, with several women lying on the floor around me as it is basically their living space! We are situated down a tiny little alleyway with lots of similar guesthouses, at the moment all the Vietnamese are sat in the alleyways on plastic stools eating their dinner with...
November 2010
2 posts
Goood Morning Vietnam!!
What a very original blog title, I know! But we did actually arrive in the morning so us turning to each other on the bus to say ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ was a very exciting moment! Especially as the bus was sooo horrendous, and we’d been on it for 12 whole hours..
But prior to any of that, we had Laos! Which was the best surprise of our trip, what a beautiful country it is. After...
Laos!
Hi everyone,
We are currently in Luang Prabang in Laos and have been here for four days so far! The town is a fabulous little place, and besides the border town of Houay Xai this has been our first stop. The town is rather small, but incredibly popular with Westerners, in fact it is positively full of them, either backpackers like us or OAP tour groups! It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because...
October 2010
5 posts
Hi everyone,
Currently sat in a little internet cafe in Chiang Mai and this is a pretty dodgy keyboard so excuse any errors!! Every time I come to update this I have to think back before I start, I’m amazed at what we are fitting in each week!
The south is now well and truly behind us, but after Koh Samui we went to Koh Phagnan for a few days. There we stayed in a little beach bungalow...
We heart Samui
So we have been in Koh Samui now for a week and we absolutely love it. This place is amazing! After the ridiculous 24 hour journey and then the clouds making us suitably grumpy, we were chuffed to bits when the sun came out a couple of days in. And it hasn’t gone away yet :D
We spent six nights in a town called Lamai. Lamai is the second biggest town on the island and has a beautiful beach...
Foot Sucking Fish
So we’ve finally been here a week and already it seems so much longer! I am writing this from an internet cafe on Koh Samui, we just arrived today after an epic 24 hour journey.
To backtrack slightly to Bangkok, we left on the saturday morning in a minibus to get to Kanchanaburi. We stayed there one night and loved it! I would well recommend the place as a stop for anyone if you go to...
Bangkok
Hi!Hayley here.
Arrived safely in Thailand after a slightly delayed take off, but shorter flight than expected. I slept pretty much the entire time, whilst Lucy got through three movies! Stepping outside the airport the heat hit us, so muggy but no sunshine. We were expecting to find Bangkok pretty flooded, as our Rough Guide had warned us, but so far no floods and only one short bout of rain!...
