Airlie Beach is known as the party town of the East Coast and is also the gateway to the beautiful Whitsunday Islands. I arrived early Friday evening with a few people I was with in Magnetic Island and we all checked into Beaches Backpackers. Standing at reception we were told that they had run out of dorm beds and were going to have to upgrade myself and two girls into a room for 3 with a private bathroom - luxury! The room was huge, huge enough for a party. So ...

Magntic Island is paradise! Only a few days of rain a year, right on the beach and a buzzing bar. What more could a backpacker ask for? Cheaper prices would be nice. Can't believe how expensive it is here and how good I was at saving and how rubbish I am at budgeting! Got on the Oz Experience bus from Mission Beach with a good crowd and on the first snack stop we got ourselves some cheap wine, AKA goon. Not sure if it's an Aussie term or a backpacker term but ev...

Arrived at Mission Beach with plans to soak up the sun for three days by the pool as there's not much else to do apart from Sky Dive and I never really managed to talk myself into that. So that's how I spent the first day, on the second I woke up early to go for a run on the beach but it was pouring with rain. What better way to spend a rainy day than to get even more wet white water rafting? So I went with a girl from my hostel to the Tully river and spent a who...

Arrived in Cairns after a 2 hour flight from Bali to Darwin and then a 6 hour wait for my flight to Cairns. Which was definately not very pleasant. It's incredibly hard to sleep on an airport floor with all you have to live with and off of for 6 months! When I arrived it was nice and hot, got a transfer to my accommodation and settled in quite nicely. Stayed at Bohemia Resort which was huge and had a really nice swimming pool and bar area. My first day in Cairns ...

I LOVE SINGAPORE!!! It is a complete contrast to any of the other Asian citied I have visited. It is exetremely clean and trendy. From the moment I arrived, I loved it, even though it was raining. I arrived Thursday afternoon and took a long walk to my hostel to get a feel for the city. The roads I walked along could have been Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur but as I got right into the heart of the city it could have been New York! I reached my hostel, drenched, but ha...