Liz and Ellory

Day 154-157 6th-9th February And so, our travels were nearly at an end, all we had to do was get to Sydney and get ready for our flight back to London via Kuala Lumpur. I however had not thought through what happens when you fly with a cold. I have never experienced pain like it. I couldn’t get the pressure in my ears to equalise and thought for 30 frightening minutes as the pain became horrendous that I was going to burst my eardrum. Eventually after I had literally been sobbing with the pain there was a loud bang and finally my ears decided to play ball. Ellory actually heard the pop! My hearing was definitely not right for a couple of days after that but hopefully no lasting damage. My lesson to you all, DO ... read more

Day 149-152 1st-4th February It was indeed a very long day of flights, first of all, a 3 hour flight back to Sydney. We’d been unable to get a direct flight to Cairns so this was the best we could do. We then had several hours hanging around Sydney airport before boarding a long flight to Cairns. We finally arrived in Cairns at around 8pm and jumped into a taxi to take us to our hostel. As we were driving along to the Globetrotters International (our hostel), the taxi driver mentioned something about a cyclone. What cyclone? We asked and then to our complete horror we were told that a category 5 cyclone, called Yasi, was on its way to Cairns and was due to hit the next day. We’d been quite isolated in Uluru and ... read more

Day 143-145 26th-28thJanuary The morning found us donning our Australia tops and covering ourselves in Australian tattoos. We loaded up the car in the morning with a serious amount of alcohol and other things we needed for the day and headed off to our location for the day. A field. With enough space for the lads to have their annual Australia Day Cricket Match and for the rest of us to set up a gazebo and spend the whole day sunbathing and knocking back the alcoholic slush puppies! We were joining lots of Wade and Melissa’s friends and we had a lovely day in the hot sunshine getting really rather drunk, which we were reliably informed is the best way to celebrate Australia Day. By the time darkness fell, Wade, Ellory and I were pretty well ... read more

Day 138-139 21st-22nd January After our slightly weird stay in Sale we hit the road early, planning on stopping for breakfast at the first decent sized town we could find. This ended up being a place called Lakes Entrance which was a touristy town on the shore. We had a little wander around and some beans on toast in a café which was very nice indeed! Most of the day was spent driving, following Route 1 all the way round the coast of Victoria and into New South Wales. I’ve just looked it up on googlemaps and we covered 478km that day, pretty epic, and I finally decided I’d done enough driving just before we got to a town called Narooma which looked pretty nice and we found a place to stay called The Tree Motel. ... read more

Day 135 18th January It was an early start but we were looking forward to our day out. We’d had a look around and decided to go with APT Tours for our Puffing Billy Trip, which included lunch at a vineyard and an afternoon at a wildlife reserve as well as the train ride. Puffing Billy railway is one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways and opened around the beginning of the 20th century. The steam train runs through the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges to Gembrook. (just outside Melbourne). To be honest it was something neither one of us knew anything about until we were putting our wedding list together all those months ago. I’d spotted it on a website and thought it sounded cool! We had to be a ... read more