hi all we are in argentina at the moment, been here 2 weeks. ill fill you in on the new zealand antics! we arrived in Aukland to be greated by rain and a temp of 10 degrees-bit of a change from fiji. 1st job was to get some warm clothes. Aukland is not the prettiest of cities especially in the rain. we had arranged to travel both the north and south island on the Magic Adventures tour bus. so after 2 days shopping we got picked up and headed for a place called Rotorua. on the way we stopped at (30 [View Full Entry]

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hi all sorry its been so long i am so rubbish at keeping you updated and im lazy! we have done loads since my last entry from brisbane so again i will try and keep it brief. we had another 8 weeks in oz after my last blog so from brissy we carried on up the coast with the van still working which was very suprising! we hit all the lovely beach places -Caloundra where we got lost in a maze (it was designed for kids!) and visited a ma-hoo-sive market -moroochydore didnt do much there but the name is cool [View Full Entry]

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hi all again ive not updated you for ages so here goes we left sydney and after getting very lost trying to get out of the city we finally made it onto the highway. we have discovered that tores (our van) does not like going faster then 80kph (about 50mph) and protests every time we try by flashing the "check engine" light so we have learnt that if you talk to him like a baby and dont exceed that speed he tends to be happy. with that in mind it has been a slow journey up to queensland. we have stopped [View Full Entry]

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hi we are still staying with my friend but will be leaving in the next few days. we have bought a camper van. it is very old but it goes, the rego runs out out on 24th of may and we are not sure if it will get through the next 1 so we are getting on the road to get our moneys worth. at the moment it is raining here and the highway we need to go on to get up the east coast is partially blocked due to flooding so we are waiting for that to subside the we [View Full Entry]

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hi all just wanted to quickly say thank you to those who are keeping track of us and sorry if this blog is hard to use. i will try to put some more pictures on but it takes soooooo long. Also my phone has broken so can you email your numbers to leannewilby@hotmail.co.uk or you can tx on my oz number +61450084379 anyway, i last wrote when we were in melbourne and we are now in sydney and have been to tasmania in between. ill try and keep it brief. MELBOURNE- is a lovely city which consists of the cbd (central [View Full Entry]

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hi well we have moved to melbourne. After nearly 3 weeks of not doing a great deal in Aldinga, Adelaide we hired a relocation van to get us to Melbourne. this basically means we get a camper cheaper then usual as the rental company needs it back at a certain time. so we picked up the van in Adelaide, proceeded to get lost trying to get out of the city and finally we hit the road. the coastal route to melbourne takes you down the great ocean road. it is amazing. The bay of islands was first on the way which [View Full Entry]

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hello all were currently in adelaide, south australia, before anybody worries were a long way from all the bush fires in melbourne (victoria) although we are heading to melbourne in two weeks , but its away from all the devastation that you may be hearing on the news. were heading there for a week ,then were flying out to tasmania (free flights ) we only have to pay the tax..bargain. any way we arrived in adelaide a week ago just at the end of one of the hottest heatwaves in a hundred years, it was 40 + for around ten days. [View Full Entry]

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hello yesterday i finally saw a living kangeroo! up to now the only ones we have seen have been dead on the side of the road, anyway we were having a swim as it was boiling yesterday and 2 came out of the bushes! they were having a good nosey at us then later they were in the camping area presumably looking for food. bless they are so cute. so we drove to esperence after albany, its a lovely place with great beaches, 1 has been voted the best in Australia! then we were told we had to goto lucky bay. [View Full Entry]

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hi all, lots to report so ill try and keep it brief. we set off in the van wed 14th jan to meet a friend further north of perth, there we stayed at his mad aunts house who is way cool and me nick and steve got hammered at this cool club in Leaderville. then we gatecrashed steve and his step dad even further north at their beach house in guilderton. it was gorgeous and very hot- so hot 50ks down the road there was a bloody great bush fire. ive never seen smoke like it! so after a few days [View Full Entry]

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hi all we we made here to perth. we landed wed 8th jan 3pm local time that was after 3 flights and yet another night with no sleep! ( airport floors are not comfy!) our friend dave who we met on our last trip picked us up from the airport and we went to stay with him in fremantle. he is house sitting for a lady who is traveling for a while she has 4 dogs and hundreds of bird/budgie things. Finally i could stroke a dog without the fear of getting rabies(its very likely in indonisia) the 2nd night we [View Full Entry]

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