Emma n Ant

So this is it...our final hours of our trip. The reality it setting in when we just packed our bags for the last time...weird. Even though i am an expert packer now. But we are really excited to go home back to good old Britain..and when your away for this long you even start to miss the place! honestly!! We were discussing what we are looking forward to the most and its the littlest things...i can't wait to be able to brush my teeth with tap water, and drink out the taps for that matter...to have my own bed back, not be sharing in dorms or dodgey thai hotel rooms wondering which aminal is under your bed tonight. I can't wait to have my own bathroom which is clean, has decent toilet paper and a shower ... read more

So we arrived in Bangkok...after we left Auckland and had a 3 n a half hour flight to Sydney (which was delayed for an hour on the tarmac)...we had to run straight thru the terminal at Sydney to catch our connection flight to Bangkok! Then after over 9hours and 4 films later we landed! It was midnight when we jumped into a very bright pink taxi to take us to the notorious Khao San Road...aka backpacker central. the cab dropped us off 'near' our hotel and we reluctantly got our bags and walked down this crazy street...walked past a Boots pharmacy (they are everywhere here) and asked for directions.... then eventually found our hotel after walking past every bar with the Newcastle match playing (to remind me of home!)...our hotle wasn't the Ritz but was better ... read more

Hello!! Sorry there hasn't been a blog for a while but trying to find an internet connection in New Zealand is easier said than done! So we arrived in Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand...nice little city but far quieter than Australia...the accents in New Zealand take a few days to get used to... they tend to exaggerate their words, so there has been a lot of confusion along our way! The flight from Oz only took 2.5hours so easy done. stayed over night just outside of Christchurch...which is funnily enough full of churches! and somehow found ourselves sitting in the far tamer red light district of the city! We picked up our campervan the next day and settled in to our lovely small home on wheels for the next 3 weeks...our mate Ollie ... read more

So 7 of us hired a gorgeous Kia Carnival 8 seater car and were armed with a map, a week and a plan... Our original idea was to try and go around the coast and the most southern poiunts of Australia... but just like at home there has been an enormous amount of flooding here in south New South Wales and the main highway was closed. So plan 2 was to head inland over 1200km to Sydney. We picked up our sparkling new car and tried our best to fit 7 large Backpacks and numerous other little bags into the back. We headed out of the main part of Melbourne and found our way to Ramsay Street! its the set where Neighbours is filmed and even though its just a tiny little cul-de-sac of 5 ... read more

So we finished our very short time in Adelaide and were off again on yet another Groovy Grape Tour with our lovely tour guide Jazz! this time it was only 3 days long and took us 1100km to Melbourne via the very famous and incredibely beautiful Great Ocean Road!... We got picked up at 7am on the first day...Scoffing our Sausage n egg McMuffins! got on the bus with the Isrealies and Sabrina from the last trip... our group on this trip was full of nice people but they weren't as Groovy as the last trip! some of them were old enough to be our parents!! We hit the road on our first day to drive just over 600km but it didn't seem so much as we slept some it and stopped quite often for ... read more