Destination: Australia

Gallery: AIRLIE BEACH & BARRIER REEF

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By janners_on_tour | Photo Gallery

Journal Entry Days 23-25

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By bernadette_tony-travelling | Views [616]

DAY 23     I thought that I lost a day but I was confused (how unusual??)   Up at 6am and ready to leave Jordan for Syria by taxis.   We managed to squeeze 12 people and all their ... Read more >

Sydney and the Gold Coast

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By harrisg | Views [477]

After an overnight bus journey from Melbourne, we arrived in Sydney bright and early and checked into a backpackers. We were starting to get really weary of hostel life at this stage (at the last one we stayed at in Melbourne we shared a room with a ... Read more >

Australia: East Coast

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By heywoods1976 | Views [1187] | Comments [1]

And we are backpackers again. The camper van route from Sydney to Cairns is very well driven. Many of our friends and family have done it in the past and there are still hordes of Europeans doing it today. Whilst we invested in a copy of Camps 5 (campsite ... Read more >

Gallery: Sydney

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By misch | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Whitsundays

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By misch | Photo Gallery

Sailing the Whitsundays

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By misch | Views [928]

From Sydney, we flew up to Hamilton Island, which belongs to the group of the topical Whitsunday Islands. I have been particularly excited about this part of the OZ trip, because the Whitsundays are not only extremely gorgeous, but bordering the famous ... Read more >

Can Serrat

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 | By damonlk | Views [1443] | Comments [3]

In the 1970s a group of Norwegian artists bought an abandoned and near derelict farmhouse in the Monserrat region of southern Spain. Over the next four years they restored and repaired and now, 30 years later, it is a thriving community of international ... Read more >

Melbourne and around

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 | By harrisg | Views [470] | Comments [1]

After flying into Melbourne we joined my parents in a lovely serviced apartment in the city centre for a spot of luxury. We spent a very enjoyable (but wet) few days exploring some of the sights of Melbourne and the surrounding area, catching up with ... Read more >

DAY 18/19/20

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By janners_on_tour | Views [626]

Hi all, Back again just been under the radar for a little while, being out of range or driving through until quite late. Left Alice before sun up for mad dash to the coast and tried to get as far as possible in the first day following the highway north ... Read more >

Gallery: Alice to the coast

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By janners_on_tour | Photo Gallery

West Coast - Part 2

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By harrisg | Views [511]

The furthest North we travelled was a tiny town called Coral Bay. The small collection of buildings by the beach are all, in some way, there to meet the basic needs of visitors to the beautiful bay. The main attraction, apart from the glorious sunshine, ... Read more >

melbourne sing and KL jumbled ramblings

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By lissahirst | Views [548] | Comments [1]

well after much dilly dallying around about the place we have arrived in Kuala Lumpur. melbourne was cool, but somehow anticlimatic because it felt like we returning home rather than leaving on an expedition. we spent a few days cruising the old favourite ... Read more >

The last 3 weeks

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 | By zoe_wilson2 | Views [948] | Comments [1]

The last three weeks have been a whirlwind! I think the last time I wrote properly I was about to leave Montana. Since then I have been all over the place... I went to visit the mormans in Salt Lake City on the way South. Jen and Steve put me in ... Read more >

Journal Entry Days 20-23

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 | By bernadette_tony-travelling | Views [568] | Comments [2]

DAY 20   Back to ‘Petra’ for another 4 hour hike to a ‘monastry’ high on the hill. Why can’t they carve these important monuments at ground level?   Why must we suffer to get there?   It was pretty ... Read more >