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Goiemore (Good morning in Afrikaans) Once again we managed to land on our feet for the start of our African adventure. Back in April when we were in China, we exchanged email addresses with a couple (Delicia and Christian) who were living in South Africa. we contacted them whilst still in New Zealand with a view to meeting up. Not only did they want to meet up but they also offered to collect us from the airport and offered us to stay with them in their Johannesburg pent house apartment! We have to admit that this was a real relief for us as we had already heard all the horror stories regarding safety in Joburg. Our flight from New Zealand to Joburg was pretty long to say the least as we had to fly via Sydney. ... read more

Ard-out-ay?!! Means 'full on' or 'extreme' in New Zealand, thought we would give you this phase as they obviously don't have a different word for hello and you know how we like to teach you something new. In this blog we are going to tell you about our time on the North Island. We didn't spend as much time on the North Island as the South, about two weeks in total but hit the must see's along the way. We arrived in Wellington in the early hours of the morning after our ferry ride across from the South and as you already know we had a forth member of the Lightning Love Wagon Crew (Andy the Hitch hiker), who made himself very comfortable in the front of the van in a zigzag formation around the ... read more

GDAY! So we have finished with Oz, 8 and a half weeks have simply flown by!!! We have had such an awesome time traveling around Australia and could have stayed much longer - but hey all good things must come to an end!!! so here's the update for you all. We arrived in Melbourne, after our 'wicked' trip along the Great Ocean Road and got picked up at the train station by our second couch surfing host (in total).....for the purpose of this blog we will refer to him as MR X...... MR X was a mature man at 46 and from initial impressions we thought we would get on....that feeling soon died! We entered his house and within the first 10 minutes he told us that the world was going to end on Dec ... read more

A big Singapore hello to everyone reading! Singapore doesn't have its own language as it has so many different nationalities living there so the common language is English! We figured we would do a short blog to tell you about our two days in Singapore and to say goodbye to Asia, all in preparation for our fresh start in Australia where we will be traveling for the next 8 weeks. First off Singapore...so the good news is that we managed to block Ami up enough to get her on our free flight courtesy of Air Asia (they gave us vouchers when they delayed one of our previous flights), and we finally arrived in Singapore after yet another night of sleeping in the airport, on the floor this time! We quickly got ourselves onto the metro and ... read more

Selamat from Malaysia! So we have just completed two action packed weeks in Malaysia where we hit 6 different locations and managed to get a good feel for what Malaysia is like. On the whole Malaysia is a very modern country, (the only difference is the open drains, which you wouldn't expect but must have something to do with the monsoon). Malaysia is quite unlike most of it's neighbour's we have seen so far, it was strange as you could even feel the difference on the roads as you crossed the boarder, bumpy roads - see you later! Malaysia is heavily influenced by other cultures and has a massive Indian and Chinese population, which naturally has a knock on effect to its cuisine. First stop was GeorgeTown, which to be honest we really didn't get ... read more