Well folks the great adventure is over and we are finally home! We have actually been home for a couple of days now but I have been so jet-lagged I didn't have the energy to write the blog so here it is.... Day 107 We flew to LA on American Airlines which turned out to be a fairly poor experience. They did not deem it necessary to feed us on a 6 hour flight and if you wished to purchase anything at all then you needed to pay with a credit card making a £1 bottle of water cost about £5 [View Full Entry]

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Day 100 We got up and went straight to Auckland Airport to catch a flight back to Nadi, Fiji. We were then had to wait in Nadi airport for our connecting flight for 6 hours! For those who have ever been there it is a very small space with limited facilities to spend 6 hours. But after some reading, chatting and people watching our flight was finally called. We boarded the plane at 10pm on the 19th July. We were quite lucky as the flight was not full so we got 3 seats between us both so were able to stretch [View Full Entry]

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Day 86 to 88 - Auckland We arrived into Auckalnd and immediately the weather felt very 'English'. Granted we had been living in our beachwear for the past week on a tropical island but it had the distinct feel of a late Autumn's day and in a strange way it felt quite nice. We took a shuttle bus to our accommodation in Mt.Eden which was a lovely little B&B. For those of you who are interested in rugby we were within walking distance of the Mt.Eden rugby stadium which is set to host the rugby world cup final in 2011. The [View Full Entry]

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Day 77 Today was another one of those boring transit days! We checked onto our flight, logged onto the internet and discovered that Michael Jackson was dead - Which was a real shock! We then flew to Nadi on the mainland of Fiji and checked into a hotel near the airport and took a very scary taxi ride to a cashpoint. When I say taxi I honestly believe it was the baggage guys cousin as it was clapped out car that was bearly held together and there was no taxi sign or meter. Anyway he got us to the cash point [View Full Entry]

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Day 70 We arrived in Sydney in the evening after a swift three hour flight from Cairns. We witnessed a new level of greed aboard our flight as the airline in question streamed live tv to each of the seatback tv sets......if you swiped your credit card through the reader built into the headrest! Suffice to say we read our books instead. Anyway, we arrived in Sydney and caught a cab to the apartements and then the fun began! The first room they put us in had the loudest fridge in the world in it! It sounded like it contained a [View Full Entry]

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Day 66 Well it was another uncomfortable night on the smelly greyhound bus followed by an early arrival into Carins - 6am. So after not having much sleep we checked into our accomodation and slept right through to lunch time. We had someting to eat and then decided to go and see the flying doctors vistor centre. Again we experienced the lovely Aussie hospitality as the bus driver forgot to tell us when to get off ( he only had 6 passengers so it wasn't that hard to remember!). Instead we ended up with a magical mystery tour of Cairns and [View Full Entry]

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Day 58 We got up nice and early to catch the bus from Brisbane to make our way to Hervey Bay. This was our first experience of the Greyhound and it was a fairly uncomfortable 5 hours! I think it is deemed to be a relatively short trip and so we were lumbered with what looked like one of the older coaches. No matter how I sat I just could not get comfortable. I seemed to be the perfect size so that neither slouching nor sitting up straight helped! This was bearable for 5 hours but left me worried for the [View Full Entry]

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Day 52 continued...... This was our first real day in Brisbane. We landed at 6.35am after having no sleep on the flight thanks to some horrid screaming babies. We were both cold after having become accustomed to a South East Asian climate. We settled into our accomodation which is a nice typical Queenslander house that has been converted into self catering type bedsits. We took a nap to try and regain some of the sleep we lost on the flight before heading in to explore the city. Our first impression of Brisbane is that it is so quiet considering the fact [View Full Entry]

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We are now actually in Australia, Brisbane to be precise and so there is some catching up to do! Right, I'll pick up from where the previous blog ended which brings us to...... Day 37 to Day 47 We got up and said our goodbyes to the kind people at the guesthouse before making our way to the airport. The flight to Phuket was a quick two hours (as opposed to a long two hours) where we were met at the airport by someone from the hotel. I managed to look like a lazy oaf by just sitting there whilst Marta [View Full Entry]

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The more observant amongst you will note from the title that quite a lot has happened since we last updated the blog but rather than cutting straight to the juicy bits (pardon the pun) I will address things in chronological order in order to build the dramatic tension. Day 28 We got up and had some breakfast before taking a taxi from our guesthouse in Bangkok to Ayutthaya. We had decided to rent a room for one night (even though we would not actually be staying overnight in Ayutthaya) so that we had somewhere to dump the bags and somewhere to [View Full Entry]

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