Daniel and Lucy

Bula, Bula from Fiji. Arrived at Nadi airport and got greeted by our guesthouse manager, Mark, who offered us a taster of the great attitude and fun character we later came to expect from the Fijian people. Our Guest house was basic but decent enough for catching some sleep. Spent the following day exploring Nadi town centre and the beach. Would be a severe stretch of the imagination to say it is a premium beach! Decided to head over to Suva city for a couple of days, which turned out to be harder to achieve than expected. After much haggling and hassles we managed to negotiate a taxi ride, which was bizzare becuase the driver randomly picked up other passengers on the way! 4 hours (and 5 passengers) later we arrived at the Raintree Lodge in ... read more

Hello from the South Island of New Zealand. Last left you after arriving into Picton, where we spent one night before heading steadily southwards. Had precious few daylight hours in Picton, which we used up with a long walk around the town and surrounding hills. The guy at our guesthouse offered to let us walk his little Scottie dog. Lucy excitidly agreed, while I rolled my eyes!! We dam near exhausted the poor thing, with a massive trek around the bays of picton. Spent most of the night trying to convince Lucy that a "ickle doggy" would not be a good idea when we got home! Left Picton the next morning, bound for the marine paridise of Kaikoura. As we headed south, the scenery just got better and better and better. On the road into Kaikoura ... read more

Hello from Singapore!! After dragging ourselves away from the Gilli Islands (we were considering staying and setting up a business selling pineapples on the beach), we arrived in Singapore late on Friday afternoon. We quickly checked into our hotel, spruced ourselves up, put on our glad rags, and headed to the famous Raffles Hotel for cocktails. You aren’t allowed to wear sandals or flip-flops at the hotel and so, for the first time in the four months, my high heels had to come out of the rucksack. I must admit we both scrubbed up pretty well. Although, I didn’t look as sophisticated when I tried to walk in my shoes! Our “backpacker budget” didn’t quite stretch to dinner at Raffles so we went to a nearby food court where you could pick and choose between a ... read more

Hey Everyone Welcome to our adventures in Borneo!! When we last left you I was getting very excited about our trip over to Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. After a plane trip over from Kuala Lumpur, we arrived in Sandakan which was going to be our base for the next 6 days. Sandakan isn’t exactly the prettiest places we have been, in fact if you didn’t know about all the amazing things that lay on its doorstep you’d probably be on the first plane out of there. After planning everything that we were going to cram into our short trip we grabbed a quick bite at a “bistro restaurant at the harbour side”, which turned out to be a café with plastic chairs on the quay of a diesel fumed port, before hitting the hay in order ... read more

Before I start, I just want to apologise to our mothers for the amount of drunken behaviour contained within this Episode. We would like to assure them that this is totally out of character, and was mainly influenced by the intrinsic party atmosphere here on the Thai Islands. We promise to improve our behaviour in future weeks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hello again folks. Just another quick word from Southern Thailand. Since the last update, we've moved on to the East coast islands, where our ubiquitous Lazyness has continued!! Took a long boat and land journey across Thailand, finally arriving in Koh Samui. Although much more commercialised than Phi Phi, Samui has it's own charm and is one of those places that just seems to eat up your time without you knowing it. In spite of overcast weather (yeah ... read more