Gap Year 2004

Me and Deaj organised to take a couple of days off work and head out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of fresh air. James really enjoyed his trips there, so it really had to be done. We shot over on a train to Katoomba, one of the larger towns in th...

 

Brissie Saturday 2006

Here are some pics of us looking silly in hats and glasses and also some beautiful pics of Brisbane QLD Capital, gorgeous day out good to see the sights. ...

 

Australia 2005

Summer 2005 decided at the last minute to head out to Australia in my uni holidays. Went out on my own but met so many awesome people out there and had the most amazing time of my life. Stayed up in Queensland most of the time cos it was too cold in NS...

 

North America Travels 2006

I arrived in Seattle on Wednesday 3th May after a 14 hour flight from Brisbane to LA. On my flight from LA to Seattle we flew over a number of mountains covered in snow, on was Mt Saint Heleans, the volvano that erupted in 1980. In Seattle I stayed wi...

 

My Journey

Just passed through Ancona to get a ferry to Croatia... All pissed as newts...mad ferry ride....

 

My Gap Year 2001

Travelling with Sarah a lovely trusted KES girl, we set off on our first location - Singapore the hottest place ever! From here we spent 6 months experiencing the delights of backpacking in Australia. On the west coast remember the lovely Brendan and t...

 

Trip of a lifetime!

Well we arrived in Sydney after a tiresome 23 hours of travelling from Joburg, Africa, on the 6th March 2006....

 

Australia - SouthEast Asia 2006

La capital Vietnamita nos recibio con los primeros 26 del viaje, casi senti que tenia frio. Nuevamente, taxi, 100cc, 2 ruedas, 2 personas y mi gran mochila. Recorrimos, diferentes hoteles, nada que valiera los 10 dolares por 2 personas que suelen c...

 

Trip of a lifetime

Shopping. A woman's downfall and yet the source of such entertainment and happiness! Julie has said throughout this trip that she was saving all of her shopping until South-East Asia because it's sooo much cheaper here. And she has pretty much kept h...

 

We say Goodbye

We sadly say goodbye to our holiday but WE WIL BE BACK. What a great time we have had but we will return for another holiday. We are sad to say goodbye to Fiona and Steve as well...

 

Australia!

we've left Noosa! yay! it rained the whole time we were there and the worse thing was - there were no good shops for us to go in!! if me and aimée are bored then we go shopping but we couldn't even do that! Anyway. We found out some good news on t...

 

~m~ & Jon in Australia

Amazingly, one week of our holiday is already over. It has gone very fast, and also seemed like much longer, in that strange way that holidays do. We've done so much, and it's all been fabulous. For the last 3 days we've been on a tour of the Red Ce...

 

Previous Trips

Went to Toowoomba, Australia for Grandads 99th Birthday. From Toowoomba I caught the bus down to Currumbin where I had a beer at the surf club and then taxied out to Coolangatta airport to meet up with Tim Hurley. Bused back into Surfers Paradise and...

 

Australia July 2000

an introductory trip with Don Hunter to visit as many mines as possible....

 

Look Out World

The day has come to leave the city of Brisbane behind for how ever long it may be. Time to leave it all behind and explore the outer edges of this planet. And beyond if I'm lucky, but not before my flight was delayed. I had received a phone call from t...

 

Australia (and a bit of Asia and Indonesia too) Summer 2006

After being met at the airport by someone from our hostel, we checked in, admired the room and then went into town for a wander around. It was notably warmer in Alice than in Sydney, however, town it would seem is more like a village. After an hour we ...

 

My Big Trip

Our first true home in Oz, we lived in Brisbane for 3.5 months and enjoyed pretty much every minute of it. The weather was good for autumn. Small town but a fair bit to do!...

 

Sand, Sea and Snakes....

Well, I left Sydney what feels like weeks ago, but was actually only around 10 days or so ago...!!! Left on a very unomfortable overnight bus up to Byron Bay. After having had very little sleep, managed to drag myself off to the beach, which was beau...

 

East Coast Australia

We haven't told you much about our "wicked" camper yet. When we picked up the van, we were able to get a free upgrade.... yey, we have air conditioning and power steering! Furthermore, we were relieved to discover that our van was nothing t...

 

QUEENSLAND

Cheeseland (Queensland) as little Emily Rego calls it - was our favourite state! Apart from drunken of course. As we entered the sunshine state the heavens opened, closing many roads. Hence we had to stay in Hicksville (otherwise known as Richmond) whe...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

A Golden Week in the Gold Coast Aug 06

Day 1 - Saturday Thought we’d start with a fairly leisurely day because we didn’t fly out until later in the afternoon – but as usual my unconscious mind seemed to ensure that we were only ‘just in time’ for our flight from Adelaide to the Gold Coas...

 

Australia

01 April 2007 Sydney 10 April 2007 Sydney to Bangkok ...

 

RTW in 30 Days

Las falles, is crazy.... Lot of fun and good food!...

 

Round the World 2005-6

From Wanaka we headed up to Franz Josef, home of the Franz Josef glacier. We stayed at a charming little backpackers called Glowworm Cottages, with fresh homemade soup served every evening. We opted to do a full day guided walk on the glacier and so ar...

 

Do you come from a land Down under?

Sept. 2005: The trip over here went well, although I almost missed my early birdy morning flight from Helsinki to Vienna, because of luggage check-in problems. Later I got in trouble with the airport police in Vienna, because the number in my Visa ...

 

Australia

Since I've fallen just a little bit behind with my blogging i thought the best thing to do might be to combine my oz experiences to date into just one mammoth journal - easier for me anyway, maybe not you the reader!! A lot seems to have happened in...

 

Thailand Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 with my cous Sheri

Today started with my cousin Sheri taking her first ever plane flight - the 45min journey from Newcastle to Brisbane. She made it! Yay! So once she arrived we got increasingly excited and couldn't wait for our midnight flight to Phuket via Singapore. G...

 

Thailand 07

Hi Yal, what a great website this is, we can upload our photos and write little notes for anyone who wants to have a browse. … Started in Pattaya, bout 2 hrs south/west of bangkok. Everyone drives big brand new utes or little scooters, its crazy drivi...

 

Australia 2006

I arrived in Cairns on Tuesday morning at 1am, so headed for the resort and had a bit of a sleep. Tuesday I just walked through Cairns and went laying in the sun next to the lagoon. Cairns is very small and mostly consist of surf shops and travel a...