Hello lovely families :) We had a pretty long drive from Sydney to Port Macquarie but finally arrived in the small village and got met by 3 different hostels trying to promote their accommodation. It felt like being back in Thailand! We went with one that we had previously been considering and it was a big house that had been made into a hostel. Quite homely with a living room, pool room etc. it was nice to be able to sit and chill in a cozy area and watch TV ...

So after 1 night in Canberra we made our way north east towards Sydney and luckily our hostel was right opposite the bus station. We stayed in 'wake up hostel' which was laaaavly and more like a hotel. They call them 'flashpacker' hostels instead of 'backpacker'! JWe checked in for a week and in our dorm were 3 English girls our age whom we got on with from the start. There was a live band down at the bar who were brilliant and sung lots of kings of Leon and st...

G'day Cobbers!!! Ok, so we're in Australia now finally! Really excited and can't wait for what lies ahead! We are actually in Sydney now and we've been in OZ for 9 days, and to our disappointment 1,000 pounds down, Yes pounds. =-(We don't know what on. Maybe it was those lucky charm cereal pots Tom found (3.50 Bucks each) but he says they are totally worth it? Anyway when we arrived in Melbourne we had a rush of fresh air to our lungs which was amazing as fo...

Singapore - Bintan (Indonisia) We really enjoyed our stay in Singapore; our money was doing so well until this place L. We've been really lazy and haven't updated our blog in a week, so we will try to update you on our past events. We started off in geylang which again, was a red like district - we seem to always end up there! Good news for tom! But it was safe enough and we felt comfortable there unlike Malaysia! We stayed in a hotel called The budget one ho...

Malaysia We left phi phi and headed for krabiby boat and then got a bus to somewhere else and had to wait around for an hour at a stuffy travel agents to then be picked up and dropped round the corner to wait for a further 3 hours. We were both very hot, hungry, grumpy and irritable by this time and luckily after a short walk, found a MCDONALDS!! We wrote our phi phi blog there but just as we were uploading it the wifi cut out after an hours work! Back to th...