The blogs are coming fast now - I'm a bit behind. After Brisbane we headed to a place called Byron Bay. It has a really good reputation - real seaside, gorgeous town. It was lovely, but a bit dead, maybe because of the winter. We also ended up staying in a bit of a party hostel which was a bit wild for us. I think we're getting old! But they had really nice free meals so we put up with it. :-) We heard at the hostel that you could see whales from the Cape Byron lighthouse viewpoint so we headed up the steep climb through woodlands, along the roads all the way to the top. The views were spectacular! We stood up there watching for any signs of the humpback whales for quite a while. ... read more

Second blog for Australia and it's an exciting one! We decided after doing our research on Oz that we wouldn't leave the country until we had done tours to the must see Whitsunday Islands and the magnificent Fraser Island. We actually booked it as a double packadge in Cairns just before we caught the bus to Mission Beach. There was a really good deal - 3 days/2 nights on the Habibi boat on the Whitsundays and 3 days/2 nights on a 4x4 self drive tag along tour to Fraser Island with a night in a hostel either side the tour. All for $555 each. We are really pleased we went for this one as we have not seen a better deal since! The first stop was Airlie Beach which is known as the gateway to the ... read more

It's time again for a new blog. We are actually in Australia now and I thought I'd just put something about the lack of photos on this blog. We have a virus on our memory card which is putting the month of May's photos in jepordy. We have been to a camera shop who can recover the photos but unfortunately everytime they went to put it on a cd it crashed their computer. They didn't seem to be experts so I'm going to wait until I can get to a big city and find a specialist. I'm really upset about it all but fingers crossed they will be ok. These photos are so important. Being back in Kuala Lumpur was good fun as we felt quite used to the city now and we know how to ... read more

We can't believe we've been in Malaysia for 2 weeks - we've done so much! We are actually in Borneo now so I thought I'd update the blog before we had too many adventures here. The speedboat across to Pulau Langkawi from Thailand was great, we got an actual seat and it was on time. Langkawi is known for its beautiful beaches but as we were only staying for two nights we stayed in the town called Kuah which is near the jetty. We'd had a lot of the beaches so we decided to do something different and visit Underwater World. It was really fun! It's Malaysia's largest aqaurium featuring 200 different species of marine and freshwater creatures. There was even a talking parrot! Our favourites were the turtles and the rockhopper penguins. We watched the ... read more

We've had a brilliant time the last couple of weeks so I thought it was definetely time to update the blog. Through the grapevine I've heard people are wondering where it is...... Finding accommadation on Ko Phi Phi was a bit of a nightmare and I spent the last two days in Phuket looking through loads of hotel info. I came close to pulling my hair out. Then I just came to the conclusion that EVERYWHERE is expensive in Phi Phi so just book. We finally found Mama Beach Residence in Ton Sai Bay - it was really lovely but like all Phi Phi hotels well overpriced. Our beach area was really nice and there was a cordoned off area where we could swim - some 5 star resorts didn't seem to have this so we ... read more