Bula from Fiji!!! so last we left you we were in Melbourne about to drop off the car. Tuesday morning we woke early to do that, then spent the day walking around Melbourne city centre, and booked our activities for wednesday: Wine Tasting! Another early start to catch the minibus to the Yarra Valley, to taste wine from 4 vineyards, starting with De Bortoli, where we got to try the famous Noble One sweet wine (especiallyfor Yvette's sweet tooth!) Then it was ...

Hi all, hope everyone is well!We've just made it to Brisbane for our last few days in Oz...On Saturday we arrived in Brisbane from Noosa and had a walk around town, then out for an 'award winning' curry in the evening. That day we got caught in the crowds of the Welsh fans coming to watch themselves getting stuffed in the rugby bythe wallabies. After thinking there's not much to do in the city, we got ourselves out for a cruise on sunday on the ri...

Right....... we were gonna try to update this more often - obviously that didnt happen! here we go: the first two weeks of Oz!we arrived on wednesday 16th may in cairns, very tired from the trip through asia and had a very relaxing day, had a wonder through town (which you can see all of in about an hour or less!) and that was about all we managed. on thursday we again didnt do much but we did have a couple of hours swimming in the 'lagoon' down by the ma...

Just a quick blog today to keep up to date before we fly on to the next leg of the tour tomorrow.... Australia here we come! so on saturday we took the MRT (Mass rapid transport) - basically like the tube but a lot cleaner, quicker and cheaper over to the eastern side of the island, before taking a bus to the Changi Chapel Museum - this is fairly new, built out next to the prison - giving lots of history of singapore during the war. also learnt that the prison th...

Hi all, we're in Singapore now after 6 days in Malaysia... When we last left you we were about to go to the Boh Tea Plantation. Saw huge tea plantation owned by a Scottich family that exports Boh tea, dunno if it gets to the UK but  its apparently sold in Oz... went in and saw the factory where they crush and dry the leaves, and got good views out over the valley. The plantation is worked on not by Malaysians (who apparently dont like working any more) but ...