Hello again! I'm slowly catching up with the blog entries ;-) hopefully you can gather from my photos most of what we got up to in Sydney. We spent 5 nights there and stayed in Kings Cross - a buzzing, popular area but a little dodgy if we're honest - lots of 'adult entertainment' places everywhere :-s. We arrived on Monday evening so basically had 4 whole days to do some exploring and we crammed in as much as we possibly could! Including a few nights out of cour...

Okay, so our next stop after Melbourne was Uluru (or Ayers Rock as we used to call it) and Alice Springs, for a 2 night / 3 day safari/camping trip. Yes, that's right, I camped in the outback... and survived! A proud moment for me ;-) So we got up early on Friday to fly to Uluru where we landed at around 10.30am, and it was already hothothot - think the temperature reached around 41 degrees the day we got there, I've honestly never known anything like it. I'v...

Just taking some time out in Sydney to write my update of the start of our trip part 2 - Australia! We flew into Melbourne last Wednesday and spent our first night at Reena's aunt's house. Her uncle picked us up and on the way back took us via Pin Oak crescent aka RAMSAY STREET - I was so excited just to be in Australia, I tell you this almost killed me! The evening was relaxed, it was was really nice to be in a house again, and we had a lovely homecooked dinn...