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Seasons Greetings Blog Fans! Well, here we are, sat in LA's pissing rain writing our last ever blog. Awwww... We know you're as sad as us. The last 12 months, with the help of 19 flights, have flown by and now we find ourselves one sleep away from real life, real ale and real poverty! Anyway, enough crying. So, our last week in Mexico was spent by the beach in Puerto Escondido. This didn't go as well as planned as the bus there ended up taking 20 bloody hours. Nikki then developed the most annoying cough of the year resulting in Gail's visit to the pharmacia and, using her Spanish, asking for some 'tos' medicine (snigger). After moving from the giant red ant-biting hostel, we found ourselves an expensive room fully equipt with hammock. Still, we ... read more

Hola Amigos! Welcome once again avid readers to our first Mexican Blog. There are many, many pictures as Nikki couldn´t stop herself 'attaching' so grab yourselves a tequila shot, or bottle of Corona, and immerse yourselves in the first installment of our Central American adventure. Following our full-body searches in Fiji airport, multiple trips around LA airport's bus route, a fatty-food binge in Miami airport and utter confusion in Cancun airport, we eventually navigated our exhausted bodies to a brightly decorated room and slept, slept, slept… With only three weeks to make it to Mexico City in order to meet Nikki's brother, everybody warned us to miss out Cancun, The Concrete Capital of Crap, if only we'd have listened! It's scary how completely ruined the area is with 25miles of ugly high-rise hotels, privatised beaches and ... read more

G'day folks! A warm welcome to our avid readers. This is our final blog from the land of Ozzy, we only have 3 blogs left until our return so lap it up while you can. After leaving the lovely house-sitting job, we headed further down the east coast for a quick stop in Noosa Heads at the Flashpackers Inn. Here we had a surf lesson (both managed to stand up on the board; Gail can turn) and celebrated our two year anniversary by not eating pasta or noodles but something normal like fish. We also forgot to take any pictures here so you'll just have to imagine us surfing, sorry. We then headed down to Brisbane for 2 nights in a dirty Base Hostel whilst we impatiently waited for Nikki's Mum and Dad to arrive and ... read more

G'day Mates. Firstly, we must apologise for the big delays in between blogs. It’s sometimes difficult to be at a computer long enough, have all the leads for the cameras, the money for the machine and the energy to bash them all out at once (poor us... so busy, eh?); however, a blog delight now awaits you… We took off from Melbourne on yet another flight and headed for the delights of Western Australia. At the rather disgusting looking ‘budget’ terminus we were greatly cheered up upon discovering that we were to share our flight with the one and only… ‘Kitten’ from Big Brother 6(?)!! For those of you who care, yes she still looks like a screaming lesbian. Anyway, we arrived at 3am and were swiftly collected by the wonderful Mark from the Ozi Inn ... read more

Welcome to the Vietnam Blog - Part Two. Firstly, it would be appropriate to start with an apology. We have been absent from your lives, inboxes and hearts for over 6 weeks now... or you may not have noticed if you're in England as it’s now glorious summer (we write this from a medium to cold Melbourne...grrr). Everything in the last two weeks of 'Nam seemed to begin with the letter 'H' so here we go... HOI AN We rocked up here on a night bus from Nha Trang. Billed as a ‘luxury bus' we had great expectations. Turns out it was ridiculously modern and uncomfortable, with AC blowing on us for the whole trip. Bring back the Indian Death Bus we say! Hoi An is a disgustingly cute French style town about half way up ... read more