Netherlands-Belgium 19/07/08-23/07/08 Mike, Liv and Steve Flew into Enidhoven in the Netherlands, another great budget Ryanair flight. Travelled up be train to Amsterdam, stayed for two nights in Amsterdam. In a hotel right in the centre, with the steepest stairs we have ever seen, more like ladders. Went to a couple of coffeeshops and sampled the local "coffee," which for some strange reason did something funny to my legs. Its a big strange going i...

Alice Springs 25th to 31st Dec We decided to go for a little drive down to the big red rock to have a look around. It's a bloody boring drive 4000km there and back, along a very straight road. The only changes in the scenery is that it changes from green in the top end to brown as you head down to the centre. We left late on Christmas day so we went to Litchfield National Park for the night, about 2 hours south of Darwin. The park has some great swimming spo...

Townsville to Darwin 4/12/07 to 8/12/07 Not a lot to write really about the drive, apart from it being long and straight and red. The 130km speed limits did help get the straights over with a bit quicker. It was a bit of an experience pasing road trains, with 4 trailers, 53m long, with the back end of them wobbling around. There was no lack of long straights though to pass them. On the first day driving we noticed a lot of ants in the car, later when we stopp...

13/11/07-20/11/07 Flew back to Melbourne and picked up our car to begin our road trip to Darwin. Went to random pub just on the NSW/Victoria border (yes mum, there is two of these pubs that are exactly the same). Stopped at parliment house in Canberra, we didn't see old howard there, pretty flash place though. Stopped at lots of beaches on our way to Sydney. Stayed with Uncle Dayrell and Aunty Janet in Sydney. Did the usual tourist stuff in Sydney, walked over h...

26/11/7-27/11/07 Fraser Island Took a break from driving to have a holiday on Fraser Island. We did a two day 4wd bus tour. The first day we got picked up from Rainbow beach and got a barge over to the island. Drove up part of 70 mile beach, as it was high tide and the bus driver had to dodge the waves. We went to lake wabby for a swim (the dark green lake) after trekking over the sand hills. Saw the rusty hulk of the Maheno shipwreck on the beach, it isn't in...