After a chilled day at our campsite meeting the long-term residents and chilling by the pool etc we turned in early in preparation for our log day on Fraser Island. We hopped on our big green bus with Glen our driver and guide for the day at about 7:40am, only a few others on the bus made is complacent that it would be a nice peaceful trip..oh no..we did not reckon with half a coach load of German people complete with German-speaking guide..she handed out all sorts of info and maps, but wasnt kind enough to give us anything despite the [View Full Entry]

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We left surfers after a days rest and recuperation following the staff shennaigans..free bar seems like such a great idea at the time and then you wake up and realise what a huge mistake it was!!Still fun times had by all and a night in a lovely plush hotel bed with TWO pillows each (that part Matt was most excited about!) was just what the doctor ordered. Our campsite for the day of death was a lively place in Southport just North of Surfers.. we were astonished when we pulled up to see not only a pool. but a giant jumping [View Full Entry]

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Firstly apologies for the lack of blogging and communications recently, as we have been moving about a lot we havent found campsite with free wireless and havent had time to really sit down and document anything up until now! Our first 3 weeks of work have been pretty uneventful.. we made weekly target on 2 of the 3 weeks, bit of a struggle but we got there eventually and the bonus was nice to see in the bank. Our 3rd week was in a very quiet shopping centre and although we had no competition from santa or a rival photographhy company [View Full Entry]

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Firstly apologies to those who have been waiting for the Aussie update- we were waiting a little while until we had interesting stuff to talk about in a blog! We arrived in Aus with very little hardship-the flight was ok although neither of us managed as much sleep as we would have liked-and were spoilt for choice with the in-flight movies which was quite frustrating when you know you should be sleeping but you are trying to cram in your 2nd film, Matt finally succumbed and watched Mamma Mia and LIKED it!!! We made it through customs fairly easily with only [View Full Entry]

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So, we have done Asia.. not literally ALL of it but i feel we have fited in a HUGE amount in a pretty small space of time! We have seen so much it's hard to keep up with when and where we saw and did everything! Our favourite country on the trip was probably Cambodia, not exactly sure why! A combination of the people being so friendly and all the amazing new cultural things we saw, the activities we did and just the fact we were on our first part of the trip and getting to know everyone in the group [View Full Entry]

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Our overnight train was slightly better in that we weren't located right next to the doors, so we both managed at least a little sleep although i wasn't feeling too well during the night which kept us up a little longer than planned. The border crossing was by far the strangest. We stopped a few hours in and some people got off the train, unsure what to do we asked a few people and were told to stay on the trian, then handed immigration forms for Singapore, which we filled out. ABout half an hour later another man came to collect [View Full Entry]

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Our bus left mid-morning for Melakka (i must just add, there are about 3 different spellings of the town floating around so forgive me if i spell it in different ways) which only took a couple of hours, we arrived at the sentral station and had a little trouble finding our local bus to the hostel but we got there eventually! We got off at the stop indicated and were a bit concerned that we couldn't see the hostel or the road it was on but we just walked around in circles for a bit until eagle-eye matt spotted it and [View Full Entry]

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So arriving on the train at 5am after very disturbed sleep you can imagine how grumpy we both felt, but we managed to negotiate the MRT after buying our tickets AND finding the right platform!! The directions to our hostel were really easy to follow and although our room wasn't ready they had one for us to snooze in for a couple of house until it was. We woke up and moved and then walked to get an idea of where things were in the city. We found the bus station and got our tickets and a donut and went in [View Full Entry]

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Unfortunately we had to leave our piece of paradise and make our way further South in keeping with our schedule to fly to Oz from Singapore. Our first step was our VIP mini-bus from Krabi to Penang via Hat Yai. Well i think VIP was a little exaggerated as we were once again crammed into the back of a forlorn looking mini-bus with half working air con while we watched the driver and tour operator try in vain to force our rucksacks in the tiny space called a boot. But once the boot door had finally been jammed shut we went [View Full Entry]

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So after a day of exploring Phuket, chilling on the beach and relaxing with the local Rastas in their bar, we spent our final night in the dorms and sent Jen and Rich on an early boat to Phi Phi to scout for a room to stay in..after a nice lie in we had a proper english breakfast courtesy of Steve the owner..with HP sauce for the bacon! YUM! we hopped in an already overcrowded mini-bus (something which of course did not phase us now after being so used to this kind of transport from the intrepid trip) and sang along [View Full Entry]

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