After finally pulling ourselves away from the home comforts of sydney we headed north in to byron bay in search of warmer climes. after spending our first night back in a hostel we felt a bit out of touch especially as everyone around us just wanted to go on the piss, so we spent the next 3 nights under canvas at clarkes beach campsite. the sun came out for us as well and it was nice to spend a few days just hanging out on the beach rather than being togged upto the eyeballs!!There's also a big surf culture here and [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Sydney around lunch time on the saturday (7th) and after getting some info of what was going on in the city we tried find uot how to get to Gorden the suburb in which the family who had so kindly offered us a place to stay lived! The trains weren't running on the north shore line so we had to swap to a bus but it all made sense eventually and we made it to gorden where we had a friendly welcome from Johnson family (sue, mark,2kids, 3 terriers, 1 great dane, 2 ferrets, 1 mouse and 2 [View Full Entry]

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Having eventually sussed out the cheapst deal we could on a hired car we set off to pick it up on the wednesday morning. Once all our stuff was loaded in and we'd said a few good byes we set off for Port Fairy. After about 3 hours of driving we arrived in the quaint little town of Port Fairy where we sat by a little inlet and had luch with some rather cheeky seagulls waiting hopefully for a crumb or two! After lunch we went for a walk round an island the name of which escapes me right now but [View Full Entry]

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After a long bus journey from adelaide we arrived into ballarat and caught another bus out to the Ballarat grammar school. upon our arrival we were greeted by our host "Peter" and shown around our lodgings. From our previous conversations with peter we'd figured he was a nice guy but the warmth and welcome we received from him and the entire school was amazing, for the duration of our stay we had a small flat to ourselves which gave us the chance to settle down with a few home comforts. In our first few days at ballarat we were introduced to [View Full Entry]

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Well we are now in Adelaide and have done quite a few bus hours in the process of getting here! we set off from Darwin on the 21st april on the greyhound bus going to Alice Springs. We were greatfull to be moving on again as we had recovered and were ready for another adventure. Before we left we booked onto a tour to go and see the 'Rock' as it sounded as though it would be hard work to see it on our own without our own car!! For our 4000km greyhound pass and the tour it cost us the [View Full Entry]

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Well we are now finally in Oz, the journey here sounded pretty simple. We were due to leave yogya at 8am for our flight to jakarta, so we caught a bus to the airport around 6 only to find out once we'd checked in that our flight was now not leaving till 10.20am. things were not looking good for arriving into singapore around midday as we'd hoped! We did leave around half ten and the flight to jakarta took about 1 and a half hrs. however our (9.30am) flight to batam now had four guys underneath it weilding a big spanner!! [View Full Entry]

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We left Lovina the next day on another night bus, because the dolphins were seemingly the main attraction and their was very little else to do. The journey to probbolingo went smoothly and we arrived there at 3am!! their was only one place open to arrange our further transport to mount bromo and he did slightly rip us off but it equated to about 75p so we wern't to fussed.our transport was a small minivan with around 30 people either in it or on it for the 2 hour trip to bromo (luckily we were in the front where there was [View Full Entry]

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So our travels through indonesia continue!! Our trip from Flores to lombok was an interesting one! it took us 33hours! we left flores at 9am by ferry for the 8 hour trip to sape on Sumbawa from where we got on a bus for 2 hours to bima where we then had to wait and hour for the next bus, an overnight affair which should have taken us to Mataram in west Lombok for 8am however all started to go wrong about 1am!! the bus stopped in the middle of nowhere for over an hour with lots of tools going underneath. [View Full Entry]

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We made it into our 8th country with the 2 month visa we had been trying to get throughout Malaysia and then got in about half an our in Tawau the border town! We left Tawau (Malaysia) on the 11th march on a 3 hr (actually more like 5) boat trip to Tarakan!(indonesia) We booked into a hostel there and went to find out any info on boats going south, as it turned out we'd missed the 2 weekly boat to flores by a day ddddooooooooohhhhhhhh!!! slightly gutting but there was a boat on the 13th to Makassar so we spent [View Full Entry]

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We spent a few days in Kota Kinabalu some of them rather wet, the monsoon rain is still coming and it is pretty predictable that it will be raining around 4pm most days!! One particular day we treated ourselves to a trip to the cinema ( we saw Jumper)it was fine when we went in but it was hammering it down when we came out and it wasn't letting up. We were the other side of town to our accomodation with no water proofs or umbrella, we were going to get wet, VERY WET!! We need some food as well and [View Full Entry]

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