... South Australia. Thats us onto our 4th state now. We should do another one (Victoria) before we're home. However Western Oz, and Tasmania, are the remaining two, which I doubt we'll make. We decided to come down here, because this is coming into fruit picking season also. Its good because we'll all get to stick together now, picking whatever fruit. We flew down overnight, and arrived very early in a rainy and cold Adelaide this morning. This is now officially Australian winter. By my calculations, I might well have seen the last of the sun until Summer in Dundee 2010! Hopefully my tan will stay with me for a few weeks down here. We did look into getting another roadtrip, passing Ayres Rock etc, but there were no relocations and it would cost far too ... read more

Heres all the pictures I promised. X... read more

So its been over a week since my last entry, and we've done quite a few places, so here's a quick summary of where I've been and what I've done. The first stop was Bundaberg. We met Nicola here and checked into our very nice motel room. After a quick walk around the little Oz town, and the obligatory pint, we treated ourselves to a pizza takeaway and a night in front of the TV. The next day we took a tour of the Rum Distellery. Bundy Rum is well known throughout Oz and it is made here. It was quite a good tour with some free samples at the end, but Im still not a fan of the stuff. We decided to ask a few of the working hostels in the town if they had ... read more

So, last time I wrote we were still all at Micks after a trip to Surfers Paradise. We're now on the move... The last 2 nights were spent at the local RSL club, and then in the valley the next night for a leaving night for Nicola's friend, Becky. Both were spent suitably drunk where I carried on my drinking habits. Me, Stef and Jen then headed up to Noosa on Saturday for the first leg of our 2 week journey up the coast. We couldn't find any hostels on the net, apart from one badly reviewed place, so we decided just to go up any because "surely there would be somewhere to stay", oh how wrong could we be. After a few phone calls to a few hostels, and asking hostels minibus for vacancies, we ... read more

G'day sports fans, So I thought it was gonna be a quiet week, but how wrong could I have been. So I met Stef on Sunday evening, and we checked into our new hostel, Banana Benders. It was bra to have a good night sleep without any loud and annoying Germns. We just chilled out at night and caught up. The next morning we had a lie in and decided we'd better do some washing. What a relief it was to have a clean towel, as mines was pure bouffin after using it since I left 2 weeks before that. as I went through to the reception to get some change for the washers, Nicola comes waltzing through the door. I was shocked. The upshot of how she came to be there, a week early, was ... read more