Looking forward to our big adventure: Melbourne - London - Paris - Japan - South Korea - China - Vietnam - Cambodia - Laos - Thailand - Malaysia and back home to the sunny Aspendale Riviera... At the moment Trip Advisor and Lonely Planet are our best friends. Due to Dean's football commitments (and, to be honest, a reluctance to spend more than 10 hours in a plane to a climate colder than Melbourne's) Eleanor and I are flying from Melbourne to London and then on to Paris for a little bit of luxury time before hitting South East Asia. Two travel agents said it wasn't possible to do something like this for under $3000 EACH!!!! Well, that's quite crazy really. Luckily the Google machine exists because I found Etihad Airlines were quite willing to take ... read more