How does a tour bus of 6 girls sound? Well, you would think you would never hear a man complaining but we had our bus driver getting that way!! So I set out on another 3,5 day camping trip from Alice Springs upto Darwin together with Heli a Finnish girl I met in Adelaide and have been travelling together since, the pleasantly disturbed blonde Dutch girl Mer, the upmost entertaining young Laura from the UK, the crazy Ozie chick Cyndy and the outcast Lara from Canada. We visited many places including Wycliffe Well known for the most Alien sightings in Australia, Devils Marbles (which look like big balls..) are massive granite spheres, the popular refreshment stop of Daly Waters pub, Katherine Gorge and Mataranka Springs where we swam and canoed with fresh water crocs!!! And finally ... read more

I caught my train the Indian Pacific, from Sydney with 2 mins to spare. All the passenger doors were locked so I had to board from the luggage section. I was so close to missing my train I had to run for my life! I could hear my heart beating in my head and was coughing like a... unfit person.. So the first leg of my journey started at 3pm on the 26th July from Sydney and ended in Adelaide at 3 pm the next day. It was a 24hour train journey with a 2 hour stop at a small town called Broken Hill which very much reminded me of the town Radiator Springs in the Disney 'Cars' movie. (if you've seen the movie you'll know what I'm talikng about if not then watch it :) ... read more

Me and Jen were looking cool this weekend whizzing around in her new black convertible MGF! She is called the ‘Minx’ and is a nifty little mover. We just could not help but cruise the city top off pumping the music and then driving to the local beaches to do some sight seeing…Shame the car is only a two seater… ;) Jen firstly took me to Palm Beach which is where Home and Away, Summer Bay scenes are filmed. We saw no action but reenacted a few scenes ourselves! We also popped into Manly and Coo gee Beach, seriously these beaches will look so awesome in the summer!! And on Sunday we went to Bondi Beach where Jen had her charity event swimming competition. It was held in a 50 meter swimming pool located right next ... read more

What has been happening in the life of Turkishdelight in the past 2 weeks, well let's see.. my weekdays have consisted of the bog standard work routine with a trip to the cinema to see the animated Pixar movie "Cars" which was highly entertaining and recommended, and also a trip to the gym for a 'body jam' class with Jen which again was highly entertaining... from a spectators point of view that is!! However, the weekends have been the main hip shakers.. SO what did I do? The weekend before last was a busy one; It consisted of a night of Champagne, Wild Catz, Big Mac and Opera... To elaborate abit more, the champagne night as you will be correctly wondering is not the sort of backpacker thing and to your relief was not obtained by ... read more

A thing I have noticed about traveling is that you end up meeting some really nice people. It may be the case that you only know them for a day or maybe a few but you exchange details as if you are genuinely going to stay in contact. Half of the time you don't but then there is the other half chance you will... And one of these examples is when I exchanged my details with Jenny and Jo whom I met in Fiji... What happened is after spending my 4 nights at Nananu Island I had 2 nights booked and paid for on the Beachcomber party Island. I was abit reluctant to go as I was enjoying the company of the Famous Five but thought I had to try it out. And I'm so glad ... read more