After our 'interesting' group on our sailing trip (see last blog), we were hoping for better on our 4x4 driving trip round Fraser Island (the world's largest sand Island - tick). And we got it. Our motley crew of 9 was composed of us (obviously), an English couple, an Austrian with experience of driving trucks and heavy things which was very helpful (Quote in the style of Schwarzenegger "I love to drive in dee sand"), a Canadian with a world of outdoo...

Everyone loves a bargain, and as you well know we are no exception to this. So we planned to do a sailing trip round the Whitsunday Islands (just off the coast of Queensland - very beautiful Islands). But rather than booking a trip in advance, our strategy was to turn up on the day we wanted to sail and to see which boats would be desperate enough to have us aboard. So as a result we managed to score a fantastic deal, a luxury 'cat' for 3 days sailing with only ...

Welcome to Australia where it is hot hot hot Yes after being all wrapped up in Tokyo we are now wearing shorts, t-shirts and thongs (calm down that's what they call flip flops). We're in Cairns for one reason - diving on the aptly named Great Barrier Reef. So first things first - we need to learn how to dive. Or rather Pete needs to learn how to dive and Polly needs to 'remember' how to dive having completed a course all of nine years ago. So we spent our fir...

Hello and welcome back Sorry it's been a while but we've been busy busy busy. So Tokyo ... well stepping off the plane in Tokyo was a little disappointing because for some reason we both expected to step straight into the Tokyo of Hollywood - high rise buildings, thousands of people and organised chaos. But it was in fact eerily quiet. We found later that, that Tokyo does exist but for some unexplained reason everyone was hiding when we first arrived. We found...

After spending a painful 7 hours at the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu we somehow managed to bag our visa and eventually leave Nepal to India. A quick note for anyone considering spending time at any Indian Embassy ... don't do it. The combination of tediously slow bureaucratic officials having to serve spaced out hippies looking to find themselves is not a good one. Add to this the complete lack of information or signage and you find you've lost a day. Oh well we m...