We had a really nice Easter full of fatty food, sleep, snow and snuggles! Thursday night was spent on the couch with our flatties eating pizza. Then on Friday we spent the day walking around Borough Markets and had lamb souvlaki for lunch. Then came home and made a fresh loaf of bread then dinner and spent some more time on the couch, keeping an eye out for the promised snow. Woke up early Saturday morning to HAIL!!! Not quite what we wanted but still fun! Chris even filmed getting pelted in the head by the little balls! Then we went to the movies at the O2 and saw the Bank Job! A great film if any of you are thinking of going, and while you're watching it remember that we're been to most of the ... read more

Atter getting the bus form the airport into the city we checked into our hostel room. We'd booked a twin room because it was cheaper and normally you can just push the beds together, but these ones were super skinny and bolted to the floor! So we made a little cubby house under them. We went for a walk past the Queens University and through the Botanic gardens then did some shopping for supplies for our road trip. We looked for the famous political graffiti and banner around the place but only found one. It just so happened that our trip to Norther Ireland coincided with the Belfast World Rally special stage. So our first night in Belfast was spend watching cars racing around the castle. Very exciting stuff! And VERY cold. The next morning we ... read more

We just got back from Norway and had an amazing time with Emily's old uni volleyball partner (Karoline), her boyfriend (Erik) and their baby (Cecelia). We did lots of hiking and sight seeing. Erik is a ski instructor for the Norwegian junior squad so he told us lots about skiing and took us to this huge ski jump (no snow on it at the moment though) and to a ski museum. He is also a qualified sky diver and scuba diver! On the weekend they took us up to Karoline's aunty's cabin in the mountains. It is sooooooooooo beautiful up there. It is picture perfect with the mountains mirrored on the lakes and fjords. There is still some snow on top of the mountains and glaciers and we played in the snow, building weird snow men, ... read more

AO NANG: It has been a while since we were there now so this will be quick. This was Chris's favourite place. Stayed at the Baylay Guest House which was pretty nice and had great staff. Ao Nang is like the beach part of Krabi. It is the gateway to the Phi Phi Islands and heaps of others. The first day we spend exploring the shops and bars. On the second day we did a 4 island tour where we stopped at 4 islands and went snorkeling, sea kayaking, swimming, sunbaking. It was an awesome day and became brown little monkeys! The next day we went to Phi Phi island. I wanted to go to Phi Phi Ley, which is where they filmed the beach movie so we got this boat over. It went to Phi ... read more

Well after a few tearful goodbyes we have finally started our journey to conquer the world. First stop: Bangkok, the city of tuk tuk and ping pong shows!! (You want sex? Sex dvd? hahaha) Landed at about 9.30 local time (12.30 aus time) bartered a taxi to take us to our accomodation. A cute little bed and breakfast called Tuptim. And that is exactly what we got: 1 bed and 1 breakfast! But it had air con...so good. After settling into our room we chained our bags to the bed and went for a beer and contemplated whether we had made the right decision. The answer was yes. Next day we had planned to walk around the local area...we got 10 meters then was bailed up by a tuk tuk poacher. Who quickly wisked us away ... read more