Where are we again

We left for Monkey Mia with a smashed window and feeling a little disheartened. My god this was one hell of a trek, it took about 5hrs to get there and the areas seemed to get more and more sparse. We would drive for hours and not see another town, maybe the occassional cattle station but that was about it. We stopped at a road house to get fuel, this was possible the busiest little place. We recon it was a real little gold mine as it was the only petrol station for miles. Weirdly, everyone that worked there were from the uk!! We had decided to stay in a little place called Denham which was about a twenty minute drive outside Monkey Mia. Denham was a one street town but had all you needed ... read more

We left Perth around midday a little nervous but mostly excited about our road trip. Our first stop was a little town called Cervantes to see the Pinncales. Our trip took around three and a half hours and was fairly univentful, we were quite suprised at how wasy it was to find our way. This was Jo's first experience at long distance driving and as those of you that know Jo know that she can only just find her way out of Southampton. Either that or she runs out of petrol!!! To help pass away the time (as we lost radio signal about an hour into the journey) Sarah came up with the game Who Am I? For those of you that dont know this game you have to think of someone famous either an ... read more

So we thought we would have a day away from the big smoke and head out to the country aka the Blue Mountains. Some friends had been on a trip with Oz Experience and had a great day so we decided to book the same tour. We had to meet at the Oz office. Now the clever thing to do would have been to find out exactly where it was previous to the morning of departure, but we decided to guess! This resulted in what felt like a 3 mile run as we had got off the train at the wrong end of the street and were running late. We were determined to make the bus and ran as fast as our little legs would take us, As Jo spyed the bus, sarah ran out ... read more

After a week in Sydney we had well and truely settled into the backpacker life, its alot like being back at college again, drinking, meeting new people and generally having a laugh (of course at college we also worked very hard!) Working on reception was really easy and we split the six hours between us. General duties were checking people in and out, keeping computer updated and doing the laundry, aswell as being the local tourist information. We were quite surprised at how much we knew about Sydney already. Aside from this, in all honesty, the majority of our ime was spent chatting, spinning around on chairs and worrying about that evenings oufits. Speaking of outfits, when we arrived in Sydney we had very little suitable for wearing out as going out here was very ... read more

I know you were expecting our next blog entry to be Sydney, but we just had to tell you about one more incident in Bangkok. The majority of travellers that have been to Bangkok will know that aside from bartering with the tuk tuk drivers, there is another way to get a cheap ride. When Claire arrived we decided to spend the day sight seeing together. We wanted to go to the Floating Market and to see a few sights along the canal. We jumped in a tuk tuk and were taken to a back alley ticket agent which was just a box with a window, in the middle of the street. What he offered us was completely pointless and totally over priced, so we went back to our tuk tuk driver who was waiting for ... read more