Thurs 9th - Fri 17th January (Weeks 15-16)Thurs 9th - Another beautiful blue day, no clouds, lovely temperature, and neither of us wanted to leave Australia. The time has flown by and its been so nice and easy, but at least we're flying out to continue our trip - not flying back to the UK just yet ! Caught the JetBus to Adelaide airport at 11am and again, the check-in lady was so chatty, and the baggage scanning man was chatting to us about diving etc - you just ...

Sat 4th - Wed 8th January (Week 15)Sat 4th - Caught the 10am shuttle to the airport and hung around until our delayed flight to Melbourne at 1pm. Landed at 2:30 and caught another shuttle down to our hotel in St Kildas. Had a wander around the area and it really reminded us of a mix between Torquay and Brighton back in the UK - palm trees along the promenade, amusement park, pier etc, but all a little run-down and tired looking. Met up with our Aussie friends we ...

Sun 29th Dec - Fri 3rd Jan 2014 (Week 14)Sun 29th Dec - Flew out of Papeete at 8am on a 6hr flight to Auckland. Managed to watch 2 films, and have a good meal, so not too bad. 3 hour layover in Auckland where we bought 2 bottles of alcohol for the New Years period as we've heard horror stories about how pricey everything is in Australia now. Another 3hr flight from Auckland to Sydney, finally arriving at 6pm on 29th, after leaving Papeete at 8am on 28th ! But it ...

Tues 17th - Fri 28th Dec (Weeks 12-13)Tues 17th - Arrived into Papeete airport at 12:40am after a 6 hour flight. Got collected from our last minute hotel booking Farehau and crashed out until 7am. Back in March when we booked our hotel accommodation for French Polynesia, we decided that if we were landing at 1am, we could probably just sleep at the airport and save money and then just check into our nice hotel later that day. However, when the day actually came a...

Fri 13th - Mon 16th (Week 12)Fri 13th - Really nice 6 hour flight to Easter Island with Lan and managed to watch 2 films, and have a nice dinner with beer and wine ! Descended through the clouds to see a beautiful sunset over the deep blue sea, with the only island around for 2000 miles being Easter Island ! Landed at 9pm (3hrs behind Chile time) and were greeted by our Cabana owner with beautiful fresh leis and given a tour of Hanga Roa town in her jeep. Looks a...