Hello Everyone, It's been a while since we've done a blog, possibly, or maybe not, but it seem that we've got a lot to write about. So after Milford Sound... The Bottom Bit From here on, there was a lot of driving, but not for long (i'll come to that). We drove away from the beautiful Milford Sound, stopping at Lake Mahinapua, which was beautiful and huge, but enjoyed for a short time only as we had a camp site to get to before dark. I can't remember where we camped that night, but i remember it wasn't as cold as [View Full Entry]

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Well, after our doubts over whether we would ever see the sun again in our last blog - we did!! On a tip that the weather was coming from the south we went south to the tourist town of Hokitika (although we were going there anyway...). The sun came out and we browsed shops selling local jade and had some fish and chips, (or seeing as 2/3 of us didn't eat fish.. just chips. Ben had a particularly unhealthy fried doughnut with a chocolate bar melted inside it if I remember correctly...). We went to the beautiful aquamarine Hokitika Gorge then [View Full Entry]

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Guest writer, co-traveller Chris Higginson! So i hitched out of golden bay, which was my longest ever wait at 2.5 hours outside Nelson, then 1.25 hours a little way down the road shocking! But i eventually got there and met ben and sarah in Christchurch, not quite as planned but at least we got there. We had a couple drinks in town and then went back to our seperate hostels. Saturday we met up and then tracked down some friends of mine who are living in town building new bikes out of broken ones. We rode around town for a little [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone! After our last regalling tale, we spent a few more days with David at his Murrnong Permaculture house/farm. We picked a huge amount of peaches (250 kilos approx.) and then took them to a local guy's shed where we set about making peach wine. Sarah and I took turns standing in a huge bucket, washing the many peaches, before throwing them in the other huge bucket that David inhabited and stamped around in (being careful not to stamp hard on any stones!). We also took part in the world famous Violet Town market, and sold David's delicious organic peaches [View Full Entry]

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Great Ocean Road Hey folks! We left off last time leaving the Grampians, we headed south after this for the Great Ocean Road, a Great Road by the Ocean. In our case filled by 4x4's loaded with eskys (that's a coolbox for poms!), towels and kids off on their Australia Day (or Invasion Day as a few call it!) weekend trips to the sea. The sods get yet another long weekend - any excuse!! The scenery is indeed very spectacular, and I reckon we would recommend doing the drive to anyone in this part of the world. It's got as many [View Full Entry]

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Hello folks! Bet you're all glad to hear from us, I can just imagine you all biting your nails, losing sleep, constantly wondering whether we made it to Adelaide or were stranded in the desert living with the Nullarbor Nymph and the kangeroos! (Google it:P) Well it's good news, we did make it to Adelaide and left Western Australia for the first time in a lot of months! We had a few adventures and many more hours of very boring driving - it's a bloody long drive and we did it in 3 days which is nothing for a trucker but [View Full Entry]

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Now, at last a blog to bring us up to speed! At the moment we are in Esperance, a seaside (yes Dini - SEA!!!:P) town in the south of Western Australia and our last proper stop before we head off across the very very big Nullabor Plain to Adelaide - to give you an idea of how far it is - think London to Moscow! It's likely this will be the last place we have access to the net for a while so our next blog is very likely to be written in South Australia, a whole new state where they [View Full Entry]

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Well well you lucky readers, after a month of no blogs you get 3 in 4 days!! We returned to Perth with a week and a half left before Emily was getting on the plane to fly back to sunny England. Unfortunately Perth decided to get Emily accustomed to the the British climate by giving her pretty crap weather for her remaining time!! She had a list of things she wanted to do before she left, going to the beach was on it 3 times - I think we only managed it once! Nevermind, we had a lot of Christmas shopping [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! As with my parent's visit, we and Emily headed 'down south' to the land of caves, big trees, whales and wineries. Busselton Our first stop was Busselton and it's absurdly long jetty. We had a swim in the comparatively calm sea (the shore here sits in a big bay and faces north instead of West like everywhere else around here) before deciding to tackle the 2km walk along the jetty and the underwater observatory at it's end - until we found out the price, then decided it wasn't worth it! So instead we went on a water slide [View Full Entry]

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For one joyous month Sarah and I were joined by Sarah's sister Emily, so seeing as she'd travelled half way around the world we thought we'd try and pack our days full of excitement and (at Emily's request) plenty of skin colour-changing sun. However, Sarah and I aren't the best at waking and getting up at a sensible hour of the day, and Sarah had some bread to be won for us both at the Stamford Arms, Scarborough's premier 'British' pub. But we reckon we had a strawberry jam-packed month, and here, loyal readers, are the details. (The chronologicalicity (i'm claiming [View Full Entry]

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