Working in Balladonia. This was definately an experience both of us will never forget.

Perth is one of the most isolated cities in the world and believe me this becomes evident while you are flying over the sheer vastness of nothing. Desert just spreads for miles and miles underneath the plane. According to reports the nearest city to Perth is not Australian but Asian it is Singapore and Perth is also one of the fastest growing economies in the world due to the vast amounts it exports each year. In short Perth is a very young city but it is grow...

Brisbane was quite a short visit and our first experience of seeing a large city in Australia. The bus from The Whitsundays took 18hrs and poor James was going stir crazy. Thank goodness he had is trusty PSP to keep him occupied. We stayed in the outskirts of Brisbane but Australian public transport is so efficient that it only took us 15 mins on the train to get into the city centre. Brisbane was lovely it was full of modern bars, shops and old churches. It was...

Hey Everyone, Long time no write. As you have probably seen STA Travel had written as off as being back home as we had not updated the website in over 2 months. So large apologies from both of us. I think we had just got incredibly lazy and used to the backpacker life. How time fly's. We promise photos are on their way we just need to get the energy up to go find a computer that will let us upload our albums. Anyways I am going to delve deep into the memory b...

Hey everyone, Firstly I'd like to apologise for the time it has taken us to update our journal. Australia is soooo expensive and so we have found it difficult to update photos without it breaking the piggy bank. Exuses, exuses I know. Anyways I thought I'd just give you a quick synopsis of our travels in Queensland so far. We flew from Singapore to Cairns at the start of August and slept for pretty much 2 days. After venturing out of the Hostel we ...