My 6th country of visit on these travels brought me to the lovely country of Cambodia. What a hassle it was getting here though. After our overnight bus in Laos, we eventually got to the Laos-Cambodia border after a 4 hour tuk tuk journey from where our bus dropped us off. Unfortunately, we decided to not visit 4000 islands as our Lao Kip's were running extremely low, and we just wanted to get to Cambodia rather than prolong the travelling. We got stamped out of Laos, where the customs charged a $2 (everything in Cambodia is dealt in US dollars, and [View Full Entry]

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Yeh, you know the joke? Following on from my previous blog...we stayed at night in a nice town called Trat once we left the border. As it was quite late, there was no point in getting a bus straight to Bangkok as we would have arrived in the early hours of the morning. After a cheap meal, and just the one beer, it was an early night. The next morning, we went straight to the bus station and got the first bus back to the capital. Although it was a 6 hour journey, we all new this was our last bus [View Full Entry]

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So, I've finally got around to doing a blog on New Zealand, what a long time ago it feels like now. The constants throughout the 12 days we were there was rain, and driving. I managed to make a note of our activities so I'll do this blog as a day by day account. Day 1 It was an early rise in Sydney. We got picked up from our nice apartment we'd been staying in for the past 4 nights, and got taken to the airport. The flight to Auckland was only 3 hours, but New Zealand is another 2 hours [View Full Entry]

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So we've made it to Laos, a country north of Thailand, south of China. After 30 hours of travelling, leaving Auckland, waiting in Sydney,flying, we eventully made it to Bangkok at midnight. It was very hot at that time, so we dropped our bags off and decided to celebrate the fact of making it to Ladyboy city, by having a pint. The next day we explored a bit of the city, and went to get a bus booked out of it as soon as possible. I quite liked my first impessions of the place, but our plan was to do some [View Full Entry]

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Sorry, it's been a bit of a while now, and a lot has certainly happened. I'll start off from where I left off first of all... So, we left Melbourne to head towards Australia's capital city, Canberra. Unfortunately, our friend Mick couldn't make it because off personal reasons. We arrived there quite late on after a long bus journey, and only managed 2 beers before we clonked out for the night! The next day was our first day in the big city, and how exciting it was...NOT. We got up, and walked down to Parliament House, then continued our walk to [View Full Entry]

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As I touched on previously, we've now made it to the home of Neighbours, Ozzie Rules, and some other things, Melbourne. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Mildura and I'm a bit sad it came to an end. My last day there was spent earning 9 pound an hour, pruning small stumps of grape vines (see Stef's pictures). This was helped along with an hour lunch break (usually only half an hour) and 5 cold beers. This continued after work where I drank some more beer and half a box of goon. Needless to say, I don't remember much apart from [View Full Entry]

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So, we're in Melbourne now. Had to fly here in a wee plane from Mildura as we left it too late to book a bus! Enjoyed a day at an Aussie Rules football game and some beers today to celebrate Nicola's quarter of a century. More on everything later in the week though, here's some pictures from today, and my time in Mildura. Off camping on the Great Ocean Road for the next few days now. Peas x [View Full Entry]

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So, we're still in the sleepy town of Mildura, right on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. We've got a new job now working with a nice Citrus farmer called Steve, and his two labs, Indie and Bella. Our other job steadily got worse and worse as the days went on. In our last week there, we each earned a whopping 33 pounds sterling. Not very good considering that was after 6 days work, and that our rent alone is double that. So we now pick oranges when the weather is right. The oranges must be at least 9 [View Full Entry]

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Just realised I've not put up any pictures in a while, so here we go! X [View Full Entry]

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So the bus was a 6 hour journey, through wee towns, and through another time zone!!! Victoria is our penultimate state on this tour (I forgot we're going to Canberra which is in Australian Capital Territory funnily enough as its the capital), and its half an hour time difference from Norther Territory and South Oz, so we're back to a 9 hour difference. The hostel we're staying at is a working hostel, so everyone is working in it. When we asked the owner about work, he said he'd expect us to start working picking oranges next week, so we had a [View Full Entry]

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