Greetings from sunny Sydney

It's been a while since I wrote and I have done so much since so, here's a summary of my highlights! Take a look at my photos to see where I've been and the fun I've had in Australia! Eira and I left Darwin on The Ghan train which takes almost 24 hours to reach Alice Springs. Yes, it is a long way but crikey the train is slow and it seemed to stop so many times!! It was fortunate that I was armed with my trusty Boots Sleeping Tablets!! Upon arrivi...

Ben, our guide, collected Eira and me from Cable Beach and after meeting the rest of the group we settled ourselves into our seats ready for some pretty heavy driving over the next 8 days. Everyone in the group hit it off straight away - G'Day everyone! - and the 4WD safari from Broome in Western Australia all the way through to Darwin in the Northern Territory really was excellent. I won't bore you with the names of all the gorges we visited and sw...

Vicki's travel diary... After I said my sad fairwells to Liz, I went to visit Leanne. We had a fab girlie night watching Grease and having facials. She also tried to show me a red back spider in her garage ??? I'm quite glad she didn't find one! The next day, she dropped me at the airport to meet Pete. It was so good to see him after a couple of months apart. We spent a couple of days exploring Sydney, then hired a car and headed for the Blue Mountain...

G'day from Western Australia! I flew from Sydney to Perth leaving Vicki in Sydney - sad to leave Vicki but not sad to leave the rain!! Perth is a 5 hour flight from Sydney and is 2 hours behind - I was starting to realise how vast Australia! The couple of days I had in Perth on my own were great - I caught the train to Freemantle to expore the famous Freo Saturday Markets, went to the cinema and caught up with Anna who we met in The Galapogas. Anna yo...