We arrived in Cairns and it was sunny and hot.  Our hostel 'The Asylum' wasn't the cleanest of places but it was cheap and seemed friendly enough.  We also got free meals  at the Woolshed, which is where we headed on out first night.  We had 'dippin dots' for dessert which is a crazy type of ice-cream over in the shape of tiny balls.We spent most of our days at the Lagoon chilling and admiring the view.  On our f...

Well we were welcomed to Australia by beautiful showers and deep grey clouds!!!!  To be honest it was freezing and Clair had to buy a jumper but it didn't last for long.  Our hostel was a clean and friendly place.  We were sharing with some lovely girls.  Izi and Jenny gave us some good advice, we hope to meet up with Jenny in Sydney.  We also had a Tasmainian Devil in our room, well that's what we nicknamed her because of he...

Thailand Not Encompassed! We headed for Koh Tao and spent 6 days becoming open water and advanced open water divers! It was like being back at school, early study sessions followed by an exam!!! We often had to remind ourselves that we were on holiday but it was worth it in the end! Our diving instructor Wajna was great! We weren't too keen on climbing over boats to get to ours and there were a few accidents! Lisa's leg looked like it had been through a...

Thailand Encompassed Tour Once we reached Bangkok, we had got over our late arising and felt a little calmer! As we came out of arrivals we were greeted by a Thai man with a board saying Lisa and Clair, we sadly got quite excited! We were then taken to the New World Lodge Hotel in Bangkok, it was lovely and clean and not as basic as we thought! That night we met our group and our tour leader Sophie! There were 18 of us all together, Kathy, Dave, Audr...

London to Tokyo! Well after the tears had been wiped away, we started to feel very excited about our trip, the journey to Heathrow flew and we were bang on time for checking in (3 hours before!) That was until we arrived at the Virgin check-in desks, much to our distress we discovered that we had to queue for over an hour and a half to check in because it was any desination check-in! That meant we had an hour to eat, buy some perfume and buy a camera!!! ...