Geo: 47.0457, 8.30824This morning, after having not a very good sleep... Someone keeps snoring, we showered, then for breakfast we had leftovers from last nights dinner. We rugged up in our winter woollies in search of some shops that were open! So, up the "hill" once again!! We got up to where the Cathedral was, and as we crossed the bridge I asked some ladies where we could find a shopping centre. Well, back down the hill again, across another bridge, then around a few more bends in the road we found it. There actually wasn't a lot there, but we managed to find a supermarket open and bought sandwiches for our train trip to Lucerne. Clint actually bought a powerbank for recharging phones. We kept walking for at least another 15-20 minutes, came across the ... read more

Geo: 46.2, 6.16667After not much sleep, we awoke at 3.55am as we had a pick up for the airport for 5.15am. Final check of the bags, we waited in the lobby for the pick up. Still so many New Years Eve revellers going home after partying all night, we arrived at the airport, checked in for our flight, then headed towards the gate to where we hoped Nikki will be, after having a sim card in our phones that chewed through the data, I had to wait until we got through Customs before logging onto Wifi. Still no message from Nikki, we knew she had arrived, but weren't quite sure where she was. Eventually we got a message, and headed towards the gate. Nikki was quite frustrated as she could not connect to the airport Wifi, ... read more

Geo: -34.872, 138.664The overnight flight from Singapore is a killer, if you get some sleep, it's good, but not this time, we had a snack not long into the flight, we watched movies, dozed for about half an hour then more movies, screaming kids.... So by the time breakfast came, the sun was already coming up. This flight arrived early into Adelaide, and after getting out bags and getting out of customs, we waited for Nikki, Silje and Grandpa to pick us up. Home to unpack our bags, constantly thinking " our holiday is over", but we have all the memories of our holiday with us forever by keeping a log of our trip with this Travelpod, a great way to remember everything we did.... read more

Geo: 7.94341, 98.2889We decided yesterday that we would do Phi Phi Island for our last full day, so once again the alarm was set for 6am, giving us not much time for anything, but we had a light breakfast, quick check of emails then we were ready for our pick up at 7.20am. We picked up others along the way then we were off to the Marina in Phuket Town. We had a briefing about where we were going, then all 17 of us boarded the boat. Our first island was Maya Bay, this is where the film "The Beach" was filmed in 1999. As we pulled into the crowded bay, so many tourists were bathing where the boats were pulling in, totally ignoring instructions to move, so all the boats spray the tourists by lifting ... read more

Geo: 7.94341, 98.2889Alarm set this morning for 6am, and we're on holidays! Up again real early today as we had a boat to catch. With breakfast done, a quick check on the iPad for emails etc, then a final pack of our bag, we then waited in the lobby for our pick up. A van collected us, then we were off to the other side of the island, to Phuket International Marina. People were everywhere and we were all given wristbands of different colour. Groups were called for different tours. We set off to our first island to snorkel and swim, boats everywhere, just reversing into tiny spots in the middle of the ocean. Here, Clint made me do snorkelling, and we had underwater cameras to prove I actually did it ( and to take photos ... read more