Temp: Bloody hot!! Day 3 was an early one. Not only hadn't i slept in about 4 days (nope, not even a minute sleep last night!) we also had to be out the front of our hotel by 6:20am to be picked up for our Grand Canyon West Rim Tour. I t didnt seem to take too long to get out there and we stopped off for some photos at the Hoover dam on the way out. We past a few towns with nothing in them and then through the Joshua Tree Forest before arriving at the West Rim. We were first in line for the Helicopter and boat ride which basically consisted of being helicoptered out then down to the bottom of the GC where we had a 20minute boat ride down the Colorado River. ... read more

Temp: 101°F The first day was a veryyyyy long (thanks to crossing the international date line) and drama filled day. Where to begin. Firstly, while sitting at the airport waiting to leave melbourne i discovered that my little laptop that i specifically bought to bring with me wasn't working. Then, we realised that Karen and i had been seated sepately in the plane! We were the 3rd bunch of people to check in and we checked in together, and the stupid women went and sat us apart!!! Then we had a stopover in Auckland only to discover that when i tried to send a text my phone wouldn't connect to a network!! Arghhhh!! And, again, we weren't sitting together!! o well,i sat next to a lovely couple from just out of Seattle so got some advise ... read more

Saturday August 15th / Sunday August 16th Day 29 & 30 London, England to Melbourne, Australia via Hong Kong, China I was up early this morning, I really should have gone to bed earlier. I'd already had my shower the night before, thank goodness. I packed up the remainder of my belongings and made my way to the tube, during peak hour. This was a killer of a trip. Kate was meeting me half way to come to the airport but the trains were chocker-block. Not fun I can tell you. Finally we made it to the airport at around 10:30am and my flight was at 12:20. Kate waited in line with me at check in for about 45minutes. Finally I made it to the counter, checked-in my luggage and it was time to say goodbye ... read more

Wednesday September 13th, 2006 Day 27 Mallorca, Spain to Guildford, England We slept in this morning as our flight back to London wasn't until 9:50pm. We put off getting up for as long as possible as we knew we had to clean the house. It actually didn't take anywhere near as long as we had expected to get the place back to how we had found it 10 days earlier. we cooked up all the left over groceries that we had bought for our breakfast / lunch. Then we had to clean out the hundred's of empty bottles (beer and water) from the bench. I forgot the mention, you can't drink the water here (well you can, but you would get a tummy ache if you did) as it is highly chlorinated and has a very ... read more

Monday September 11th, 2006 Day 25 Mallorca, Spain No one was up early today. I was first up so I decided to let the others sleep and made my way down to the bakery. It was a long, hot and fairly boring walk. There was no one around; the only people I saw between the villa and the bakery were two young local guys who were re-doing a footpath. We each said our "Hola’s" and I continued on my way. By the time I got to the bakery there wasn’t much left as it was already late compared to the other days. The lady in the bakery was so nice, each morning that I went in, she'd try and teach me some words in Spanish, I liked her for this. I got the left overs and ... read more