LA, LA, LA It's crazy man. We're staying in a somewhat questionable hostel up in Venice Beach, on Lincoln Road. It's ok, a bit grubby, full of rather dubious characters you can never quite be sure aren't going to nick your stuff while you sleep. The weather's beautiful, though it's cooler and far less humid than Fiji, and we've walked to the beach twice today, having a proper look at what crazy, hippy, doped up americans do on a Sunday aftenoon. The answer is q...

I'm actually struggling to write about Fiji. I'm literally not sure what to say. What I can muster at this moment in time is that we are having an amazing time. I'm back on the mainland now, at Nadi, having spent 7 nights over on the Yasawa islands on the Island Hopping package. I went first to Safe Landing, on Nacula island, about 5 hours by boat, and the furtherst away. Our logic for this was that we could see all the islands as we passed, and decide on the wa...

What a story. We have travelled all the way down the East coast, which is around 2,600km, in a campervan that only worked properly for the first 300km or so. So much to tell and so little time to write it! I'll be updating this space when I can. At the moment our heavy priority is to sell the beast, which we nicknamed "Sheila", frequently yelling "Sheila will get us there!" on long drives with no mechanic for several hundred kilometres (follo...

We flew to Cairns on Sunday, deciding on the flight instead of driving, as I did not fancy the 2,500km journey on outback roads. We were also told that the petrol is really expensive in the outback, as there are few places to refill, and you are essentially forced to buy it if you need it, because you're miles away from anywhere! Also, they had had a months' rainfall the day before we got into Darwin, which would have likely flooded roads. Flying just seemed the ...

Well we're in Darwin Australia now, and got here 2 days ago, in the middle of the night, which was a fairly unpleasant experience! We arrived to news that a month of rainfall fell the previous day, and leaving the airport terminal we were hit by a fresh, warm and tropical air. It's nice here, but even warmer than Bali. We decided to be a little adventurous yesterday and cooked ourselves, which was mainly me, as Stuart doesn't know a microwave from a fridge, and ...