Saturday 10th SeptColin and Louise took us for a drive to Eungella National Park on the way we called into the Finch Hatton Gorge and what a beautiful hike to the the falls through the rain forrest on such a beautiful day with the sun shining through the tree tops.We called into the River Rock cafe on the way out and had a drink in the outdoor patio right in the rain forrest.Drove up the very wi

5911 off again on our way to Lawn Hill. We stopped at Normanton for supplies fuel. We stopped had a look at Normanton Railway Station the Gulf Lander train. Then off again to a freebie we had heard about not in the Camps Book. It was 60 km south of Normanton at the Flinders River Crossing a great spot. We set up camp went down to the river where the fish was jumping set Margy up on

7911 happy Birthday Merry have a great day. We left Gregory Downs being told the road was good sealed a lot of the way NOT. It was rough bumpy but better than the last time we went to Adels Grove. We got the vans through ok with no trouble. We set up all had a swim in the creek as it was very hot. Poor Margy we hope she has not cracked a rib as she is very sore. It cooled down at n

Sorry Ive been MIA for the past a couple of days however Ive been nursing a strained eye so I decided to give my eyes a break from my contacts and my laptop.No I wasnt detained On Friday we had no classes so after working out some of us decided to play basketball with some of the locals. First we just started playing a game of HORSE. Yet we kept getting some locals who would try

Most of the maddness you may be viewing about travling in China during the MidAutumn Festival is true. Yes eveyone schlepping boxes of mooncakes through bus stations and shouting at ticket agents and well the usual holiday nusences. It39s advised to stay put if you39re in Guangdong and looking for peace and quiet my mission yesterday was to transpant myself from the heart of Guangzhou t

Today we went to Vienna.On our way we stopped in Bratislava For anyone who has watched Eurotrip... It is nothing like it I can39t decide between which is my favourite place Lauterbrunnen or Bratislava. We did a short walking tour around Bratislava then had 2 hours free time. We walked around the quaint little streets and they had a few market stalls around. I just love how quiet and cute

Arriving in Koh Phi Phi we were excited to return to Paradise our favourite place on our Thailand trip in 2009. The water was clear and turqouise and the scenery still looked amazing. After paying a 20baht towards the beach cleanup fee when getting of the boat we headed off to The White Our home for the next 6 weeks. The streets of Phi Phi were a lot busier than before but the ambience of the

We started today off with a driving tour around Vienna stopped of at a castle then we were dropped off in the middle of town. We some how ended up hanging around with Tim and Carla today. Our aim was to find the markets that had been pointed out at the beginning to the driving tour... unfortunatly we were given the wrong directions and ended up spending most of our day walking around. We went to

Travel day againNice early packup to head to Prague with a stop off at a Concentration Camp Mauthausen Concentration Camp. I don39t have any photos of the Concentration Camp because I really didn39t want to. We started our trip with a 30 minute video and I was fine watching the video until the last 5 minutes where photos were shown from when the Americans made it to the camp. The photos

Short drive to where we boarded out yatchs We parked the bus to repack our bags and while there we seemed to aquire 3 homeless but very friendly dogs. Steve was made the Skipper of our yatch and being his wife I was made his 1st Mate. We had 4 other girls on our yatch who later on decided that Steve and I were mum and dad and they were our 4 daughters... even though 1 of the girls is 2 years old

This morning we were up at 6.15am so we could clean our boat before leaving we had to have inspections... problem was we were such a great team that we had the boat finished and emptied in 45 minutes... I stood guard of our luggage because our friends the 39town dogs39 may have tried to steal somethingAfter packing up we drove to Tirana Albania. It is crazy to come from such a pleasant

That is the best nights sleep I have had since being on this tour We had an airconditioned room and a blimin39 comfortable bed to sleep onWe headed down for breakfast where we had omlettes... YUMToday39s journey was taking us to Dubrovnik. When we arrived we set up our tents had tea then jumped on a bus to go on another walking tour... of 39Old Dubrovnik39. It is a really n

It was a nice sleep in this morning Steve and I ended up cooking breakfast for everyone eggs and sausages with a bit of help from the cook... you would think it would be the other way round but somebdy wasn39t feeling too wellToday was a free day so after breakfast we did some washing we handwashed an entire load of washing because we Dutchy and Scottishman refused to pay the equival

Another travel day so another boring blog entry. We packed up the ususal way to head to Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. We drove for a long time to a place called Zadar where the 39Sea Organ39 is located . An artist put 30 odd pipes in the sea under the dock and the way the water moves makes the pipes make noises. It was kind of weird. The same artist also made a massive sun on the dock out of

Very cold last night we had our own sleeping bags and I was still coldToday we had the optional extra to go to Plitvice National Park it was highly recommended because there was not anything else to do at the campsite. We all arrived and choose the path we wanted to do we chose the 46 hour walk which ended up only taking us 4 hours with stops included. Another group did a longer walk which w

Drive day again and a long one Sitting for that long on a bus when a lot of people have the runs is not great... every time there was a stop it was a mad rush to the toilet and the toilet39s did NOT smell good afterwards Our destination for today was Budapest. After a long day of driving we made it to Budapest and went to a castle at the top of the hill on the Buda side of town. We spent a w

The new rap Steve has made up... oh joy Today was a free day in Budapest. We were given train tickets the night before so we were able to head into town whenever we wanted. We decided to hang out with Tim and Carla again today. We headed up the hill to find the underground caves which we really didn39t find turns out they were closed anyway and instead we went to find the Labirynth... wh

Wednesday 7th SeptemberMoved into the Andergrove Caravan Park and settled in well a very nice park and of course we have our own ensuite.Colin and Louise arrived on Tuesday after travelling from Broome Darwin Cairns and now Mackay. It is great to see them and spend some time touring around Mackay.We visited the Eimeo historic hotel on top of the hill and had lunch. On Wednesday we took Colin

This morning we caught the ohsoreliable public transport to the Vatican City the people who had signed up for it for a tour. It was a 2 hour tour around most of the city. The Sistine Chapel did you know there is more then 1 Sistine Chapel in the world... Sistine simply means that it was built by 56 men. Before we went into the Chapel our tour guide explained all the paintings which meant th

This morning we were up and gone by 7am because we had to drive to catch an overnight ferry. Apparently we had to be there early because the boat was a Greek boat and they run on Greek time and for those who don39t know what Greek time is... they never run according to plan and they are rather lazy people. We got to the boat at lunch time and when we boarded the lady at reception was a real cow