That's it, we're back home in blighty. It's been a fantastic 4 months, we've been to some great places and seen some amazing things. Alas it's back t…

Luckily for the both of us it just happened to rain for the past 2 days when we most needed to recuperate, so we took it really easy and didn't do mu…

After the luxury of the Qantas Premium Economy we were brought back down to earth with a bump with the American Airlines flight. You would think that…

This is where things got complicated and is probably the main reason we feel totally spaced out. We landed in San Francisco just after noon on the 20…

Up at 3.20 this morning in order to make our 5.45 flight to Sydney, geez it was an effort. Got downstairs to the reception and found 2 taxi drivers …

Even though we left Perth 30minutes late we managed to get across to the international terminal just in time. Well, just in time to see that our flig…

The last 14 weeks in Australia have been spectacular and the weather was sending us off in style, clear blue sky and moderately warm........about 90c…

Final push this morning to get everything ship shape before we hand the campervan back, the caravan park we stayed in was just around the corner from…

Today was our last full day in the campervan, so after a quick final walk along the beach it was time to attempt to stuff everything back into t…

After trawling around the Lakeside mall in Joondalup several times in the morning and watching most of the travesty that was the Liverpool match on a…

Bought a new bag for all the junk we've accumulated over the past 14 weeks and went to McDonalds to leech some free internet, although at only 10kb/s…

Today was supposed to be stormy and it didn't disappoint. The first signs came in the middle of the night when the campervan was getting battered by …

For the first Easter Sunday in a very long time Woo hasn't devoured half her body weight in chocolate, which she seemed to deal with quite well. She …

Today we made our way from Fremantle to the Northern suburbs of Perth to meet up with an old friend and his family who have just emigrated to Austral…

We were very surprised this morning to find out that public transport (buses) does not run on Bank Holidays - not even a reduced service. Stupidly, i…

The smell of eggs was still there when we left Geraldton this morning, in fact the smell kept going for about 10kms of our journey, it must be real n…

It was with heavy heart we left Monkey Mia this morning and to think we didn't reckon that much of it the first time around back in 2003. We bot…

Today was our last full day in Monkey Mia, so to make sure we went out with a bang we went for a sunset cruise.....well that and it was free aft…

We spent the afternoon on a nice little boat cruising around the bay looking for Dugongs. The last time we did this tour back in 2003 we failed to sp…

After such a stressful and high adrenaline few days here in Monkey Mia, today turned out to be the day of relative rest. OK we went for a couple of…

We tried to book onto the wildlife tour the other week when we were last here but they were fully booked, so we decided today would be a good day to …

Same time, same place...not the same results. Not sure if Friday is their day off but we didn't see a single thing today, not a dugong, dolphin or ra…

We woke up to beautiful clear blue skies & radiant heat....on a day like this there can be nothing better than to go kayaking. Last time we made …

We had a long slog ahead of us today and we couldn’t hang about if we were to get to Monkey Mia before sunset and the suicidal kangaroos. I still h…

I know what some of you are thinking "I'm sure they've been to Dongara before".....and you'd be right. Woke up this morinng to continued grey skies …

Left Perth this morning to continue in our quest to Dive all 4 frigits sank in Australian waters to create artificial reefs, having previously done t…

It's a bit odd to see people wearing jumpers and coats when the temperature was in the 20's, but that's what happening at the moment...crazy.

Don't worry if it sounds like we've skipped certain things in Perth, we've been here before on a previous vacation and also we're coming back in…

On the way to our destination today we popped into the local clinic in Jurien Bay for Wendy to get her earache looked at. Guess what, it wasn't her e…

I learnt something really important today, don't walk for 4 km's on the hot road without your shoes or else you'll get blisters. It only started…

We really enjoyed Monkey Mia this time around; just goes to show that 10 hours crammed into your seat on a coach isn’t necessarily the best prepara…

The ‘well rested’ didn’t exactly happen as planned, it seems the people in the campervan next door don’t understand the “no noise” after …

If you haven’t heard of Monkey Mia before then it’s famous for having a local population of dolphins that will come right up to the beach at cert…

The last time we came to Monkey Mia there was the little matter of a 10 hour coach journey through the night with my knees pressed against the seat i…

As it was time to continue our journey, we thought that Carnarvon would be a good place for our next stop.  When we checked into the caravan par…

Today we went on a boat-trip around Coral Bay which included snorkelling with manta rays, a visit to a turtle station, and more snorkelling.  Th…

Philip got angry with me because I was not ‘pulling my weight’ when we were kayaking to the inner reef of Coral Bay!  We were in a group of …

After a fantastic time in Exmouth it was time to move on, luckily for us our next destination was only 150km’s down the coast and still fringed Nin…

Up at 6.15 this morning for 3 dives on the Muiron Islands, or so we thought. Whilst waiting outside the camp one of the other divers mentioned that d…

Well she's finally done it, after missing out on a previous trip where we spotted one, Wendy has gone and seen her first Whale Shark in the flesh. Ev…

To make getting around the peninsula a little easier today we decided to hire a small car, not that we don't like driving the campervan, but it is a …

Good news, the van is now in good health. I’m not sure exactly what the problem was yesterday, but today it’s running fine and believe me we put …

Nothing but driving, but once we get to Exmouth I reckon it'll be worth it. We think the van is knackered, Wendy had to follow 2 large tru…

Before leaving Broome I took some photos of Cable Beach for Locky since he was moving to Western Australia soon. On the way back to the van I spotted…

Even though I’d previously had a go at Broome for being really small, we’ve actually had a good time.   Today started off with the sea kay…

Lazy morning followed by a lazier day.   Attempted to book ourselves onto a sunset kayak tour, alas they aren’t running sunset tours at the…

We were quite excited this morning by only having to drive 400km’s to get to Broome.   The drive itself wasn’t that exciting, the scenery …

Another very very long day driving today - at least we had the beautiful scenery to keep us company again. It’s not that we’re getting a little…

The scenery getting from Katherine to Kununurra was simply spectacular, so much so I wish we'd actually stopped to take some pics. I'll pilfer some f…

Having reached the most northern point of our tour of Australia today we actually headed south again, not too far though. To get to Western Australia…

It's a good job we'd booked in for 2 nights as we both woke up at 9.30 this morning, I blame the thunder and very loud rain that kept us awake during…

It sure is humid up t'north, more than I remember Cairns being. Anyway, back to today's travels. This morning we set off from Jabiru and our destina…

Barely an ant to be found this morning, thank you lethal doses of bug spray. Before continuing our journey this morning we had to find a s…

We started off our morning with the usual cereal and muffins, but today the muffins came with extra crispy ants! For some reason the reception desk f…

Another long day on the road, so very little to actually report on. We stopped briefly at the Devil’s Marbles for a photo opportunity, but that’s…

We took one last lap of Uluru this morning before heading in the direction of Alice Springs.   I must say that today’s driving was a bit of …

Up at 5am this morning to see the sunrise over Uluru, we need to have a serious word with ourselves for getting up this early when we’re on holiday…

After our usual leisurely breakfast we headed off for a day of visiting both Uluru and Kata Tjuta (the Olga’s).   First up would be a climb …

Had a tour of Coober Pedy starting at 8.20 this morning, so we were up pretty early. The tour itself lasts around 3 hours and the highlights include …

it's now so hot that the air conditioning unit in the campervan can't keep the thing cool. We've been driving most of the day with the A/C off to con…

You would not believe how loudly the guy in the pitch next to ours snored last night, it was making the windows on our van vibrate, luckily after a f…

As far as major cities go, Adelaide doesn't have the hustle and bustle of others we've been to in Oz. The tempo seems very relaxed and the fact they'…

I don't like this having to get up at 6.30 when I'm on holiday, but I guess needs must. Today we went over to Kangaroo Island to take in some of Aust…

Today's dive wasn't until 4.30 in the afternoon, but we've got a chore to complete before then. For some reason the dive company don't have facilitie…

Since we were staying at the campsite for more than one day, coupled with the fact that we didn't have to be at the marina until 1.30pm, we thought w…

Today we travelled from Meningie to a little campsite in Second Valley for the sole purpose of diving the ex-HMAS Hobart, which is located just …

The day started off with a conversation with our nearest campervan neighbours, Angel and Art from Holland. They were planning to travel to Robe today…

Bit of a change again for us today, instead of our usual sticking by the beach we've moved inland a little. Mount Gambier was built on the side of …

Today turned out to be spectacular, not only did we have a great start splashing around in the sea attempting to surf, but to get to our site fo…

Woke up a little exicted at the prospect of getting in the sea again with a surf board, although that excitement kinda settled down once I'd realised…

Having left the warm blue skies of Melbourne it was a little disconcerting to spend most of the trip to Apollo Bay under ominous grey skies…

I (Wendy) didn't receive the usual 12 long stemmed red roses and chocolates today - but I was brave and happy with Phil just saying 'happy valentin…

Today the weather continued to conspire against us, once again we had intended to go somewhere totally different, but the conditions just weren't rig…

On Wendy's return from brushing her teeth this morning she arrived back at the van to see a baby kangaroo stood at the door nudging it with his nose,…

This is getting to be a habit, on arrival at the new campsite there were already around 30 large & small kangaroo's just milling around. Some eat…

After deciding that Canberra couldn't even keep these 2 hip cats occupied for the night, we headed back to the coast. After spending most of the jour…

I'm not going to say anything bad about Canberra.......

Today we travelled out to the Blue Mountains, somewhere we'd actually been before but it was a bit cloudy that time, so we'd like to do it in better …

This is just a stop over on our way to the Australian capital.....and it's pretty cold. I'm currently considering whether to put some socks on it's t…

What a day - we finally got around to having a surf lesson today on Manly Beach. Well, I tried to surf whereas Wendy decided to just bodybo…

It seems that there are no campsites within walking distance of anything in Sydney, so we've picked one that seems to be at least close to a bea…

Showing our more sophistacated side, Wendy and I took a tour of a winery this morning....and surprisingly enough it was very educational to a heretic…

Today we left the coast and headed inland a little to visit wine country, our destination - Cessnock. I didn't really know alot about our d…

So it’s 6.30am, the kangaroos have gone and we’re getting ready to go diving. For the first time in quite a while it’s been sunny when we’ve …

We were supposed to be heading to Port Macquarie when we took the detour to South West Rocks, so we’re doing today what we should have been doing y…

Sometimes you do things in the spur of the moment and they turn out to be complete genius, today that happened. Whilst driving from Coffs Harbou…

The day started off very rainy, in fact most of the 3 hours driving here was either in drizzle or full on chubby rain, but that's all changed now. As…

I did write a quite memorable bit for this entry, but my wireless connection timed out and I lost the lot, so you'll have to make do with what's writ…

Having been to Brisbane before we didn't really need to do any of the day trips again, so instead we had a lie-in, late breakfast and got the bus int…

Excellent dive, excellent ship, excellent company, shame we were both sick over the side of the boat (Wendy twice). I'm not sure what's going on at t…

On leaving Hervey Bay this morning it was our intention to find somewhere to learn to surf, obviously not proficiently, just enough to be able to say…

I hope you read that last link about Fraser Island, because I'm not going to go into too much detail about what it is and its history here. Got pick…

After waking up in Bundaberg and having the now customary brekkie of cereal and muffins, we head off to our next destination in search of more diving…

Up at 6am in order to be at the marina for 7am, this diving lark is tough work. Usual breakfast of Special K, English muffins and strong coffee consu…

We had intended to stay in Gladstone today, but once we’d driven down the main street and found everywhere closed, it quickly became clear this was…

Bit of a trek today in the van, so not much in the way of an update. Just in case anyone is interested, we're now apparently smack bang on the 'trop…

Having left the peace and quiet of Ayr this morning we've arrived in the hustle & bustle that is Airlie Beach. I can only equate it to what I rem…

Another relatively sleepless night, we woke to heavy rain – again.  A quick breakfast and then a 30 minute wait in the rain outside the camp s…

Woke up early(ish) considering we didn’t get too much sleep due to the storms. The kind of storms where the thunder rattles the windows and you can…

Left Rollingstone early this morning in order to get to the next location and in place for some much anticipated diving the next day. This dive site …

20th Jan – Rollingstone   We leave South Mission Beach with an endorsement from the same lady ringing in our ears, she was well impressed we…

Picked the campervan up eventually this morning after a bit of messing about trying to get the cash out of a bank to avoid excessive credit card char…

Both the trips we'd planned to do today were quickly dismissed on viewing the grey clouds from our hotel window. Instead we went down for a leisurel…

After a busy couple of weeks, today we're taking a day off to relax. I know what you're all thinking, but all this holidaying can really take it out …

Another 3 dives today and by far the most enjoyable so far. It probably helps since our guide only had 2 other divers to look after and they chose no…

Today we woke up at some crazy hour considering we're on holiday to go diving from Port Douglas. At the moment I'm not entirely sure what the sites w…

Finally the wind let up enough for the boats to go out again, although judging by the amount of people spewing on the way out there must still be a b…

Even though the sun was shining this morning when we got up at 6.15, the diving was still cancelled due to strong winds out on the reef itself, so an…

I'm looking out of the window of this internet cafe and the rain is coming down real bad, I think I hear the sound of thunder as well. It looks like …

Well we're finally in Australia and we've managed to get to Cairns 24 hours before cyclone Charlotte hits town. Sounds like it's nothing to be worrie…

Up at 6am to pack and a 7.20 transfer to the airport. Journey to the airport uneventful and quite sad to be leaving Cambodia. Not sure if we'll go ba…

After walking back from the shopping district earlier in the day, we decided to get the metro to Patpong in the evening. For those who don't know, …

Our last full day in Siem Reap and we've planned an easy one. Met the Tuk Tuk driver outside the hotel at 9am and then it's the short drive to Angko…

To take a break from the temples and to spend more enjoyable time whizzing through the luch Cambodian countryside, we decided to visit the Kobal Spie…

If 5 sites yesterday wasn't enough, we're going for 6 today. First off we headed out to Prasat Kravan, a really small temple but one of the earliest…

Second day of the Siem Reap portion of the trip and after being taken for a bit of a ride (no pun intended) yesterday by the Tuk Tuk driver, we'…

We spent the day being driven around various site by Tuk Tuk, what an excellent way to travel. You quickly learn that they don't really care what sid…

We smothered ourselves in factor 30 and attempted to stay in the shade... We hired the most expensive tuk-tuk to take us to various places in A…

I really shouldn't have gone out drinking until 5.30am on NYE, especially if you then have to spend 10 hours on the red eye to Bangkok. Needless to s…

Luckily the hotel in Siem Reap is quiet, not next to the airport or near a sanctuary, should sleep well tonight

Leaving London for our trip