SINGAPORE Well we had a nice comfortable flight to Singapore, with nice food and a few bottles of wine! We even managed to exchange the big pillows we were carrying around of a couple of smaller airline ones! Yeah! We brought our EZLink card for the underground metro system and jumped on the train to Chinatown. Walking along the road in Chinatown we spot the bar that is below the hostel and check in. Our room is three buildings along on the first floor next to the kitchen. It is above a shophouse so nice and quiet. But the room is small, enough room for the bed, a tiny wardrobe, dressing table and room for the door to open! I don’t know why they don’t take out the furniture, so we have room for our backpack! ... read more

THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD Well we were up and ready waiting for the taxi nice and early. We waited and waited and waited! After two phone calls and 45 minutes it had still not arrived. In that time Frank had called to say his bus had not turned up so he was going to be late. We told him to make his way to us and either grab a cab if he did not make it or we would pick him up en route. We also reassured Katie that we were on the way, but the cab was late! Finally it turned up and we jumped in and picked up Katie. Frank had got onto a bus and we told him a road to got to so we could pick him up. We went to the ... read more

COOBER PEDY Morning has broken…….but as we are all getting up, there is one very quiet form next door but one to us, Toni. Soon everyone is up and showered except for her, Charlotte thinks she is dead, so gingerly goes over and pokes her. No she is alive, just a heavy sleeper, We really thought as there was no noise coming from her and we were all making so much noise that something was up! Charlotte made it through the night, Toni heard no snoring, although Ueli did hear a bit at the beginning of the night, just not as bad as last night! Phew, may be it was not her! An early start again today and although Henning, a strange German chap, tried to get a later start, we all quashed his idea as ... read more

CAIRNS & CAPE TRIBULATION CAIRNS Well we arrive after a couple of hours on the bus where Liam had to endure the film “Meet the Parents”, which had both Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, (the best he can wish either of hem is leprosy!) poor Charlotte! Having to listen to him ranting! We get dropped at the Greyhound stop by the Marina with no idea where to stay and no lonely planet! Off and away to the nearest free Wi-Fi spot, me thinks! After a couple of hours messing around trying to find a hostel, we plump for the cheapest, which is also the closest! The Nomad Esplanade! We head over and meet Josh who checks us in! Oh no, we have been given a double under a single with the thinnest mattress ever, along with ... read more

ADELAIDE We spent a day chilling out after the tour, which with the free WIFI gave us time to find out what was happening in the world! We went out the next day, met Katie for lunch, just up from the YHA, and told her we had decided to stay in Adelaide (as we could extend our stay at the hostel we were in). We all wandered along the main road King William Street, then down the shopping street, Rundle Mall. We hung around watching quite a funny busker who got up on this huge unicycle. Then wandered down to the big metal balls that the mall is famous for. Charlotte and Katie snuck up a glass elevator outside Toys-r-us and felt very naughty as it said everywhere that we were not aloud to travel for ... read more