Thursday 8th December So all had started pretty well with our exit row seats, but the plane soon became freezing and we disembarked in Brisbane with no sleep and stiff necks. Still the first glimpse of Australia as a sandy estuary with snaking rivers branching like trees was impressive. The cloud cover came in and by the time we reached Brisbane it was drizzling. We got the train to Roma St station and walked the 500m to our YHA hostel. It was on a road with pr...

Ok so bit slow on the blogging front but will try to back date! Saturday 3rd December Plane journey to HK was ok, not so much leg room on the twin seats for Tony (especially when there are a couple of extra large germans infront who seem to be able to recline their seats more than everyone else!) but grabbed a few snatches of sleep and cracked on with the filmsw. Woke up somewhere over China close to Nepal border to see stunning scenery of snow dusted mountains...

So we're all packed and ready to check in for our flight (in advance of course!) Just wanted to get the blog up and running see how it worked ha ha. Look forward to keeping you updated from our first stop....HONG KONG!