Category: Travel

My first three stops weren’t up to much, Saigon is much like other Asian cities, dirty, crowded and a bit smelly. I went on a tour to visit the Cu … Continue readingFrom Saigon to the Beach

Mindil markets are about the only thing going for Darwin; no surf and dangerous seas make beach life pretty uninspiring; they open just before sunset and the sunsets in Darwin … Continue readingDarwin

Honestly, the kids today are really dull. When I got to Darwin I spent a couple of days looking for people to share a car to drive around Kakadu and … Continue readingKakadu & Litchfield

Cairns is just a long line of backpackers and motels interspersed with Irish pubs and tourist information centres. Needless to say I stayed just long enough to take a boat … Continue readingYou Can Lick Their Bums Apparently

From Airlie beach it is only a few hours up to Townsville, which is a pretty small and uninspiring place. On the plus side it does have magnetic island just … Continue readingMagnetic Island

2 days, 2 nights on the world conquering Kiwi boat previously known as Ondine VII. We sailed out on choppy seas with occasional rain, thinking that this was going to … Continue readingThe Boomerang

It was raining when I got to Hervey Bay, I had wanted to go on a 2 day self drive tour, but as there wasn’t a tour group I could … Continue readingHervey Bay & Bundy Rum

Amazingly enough there are actually people living on the island which is both small and sandy, I took a 2 day camping tour that started off with sandboarding in ‘the … Continue readingMorton Island

The Blues and roots festival at Byron bay is now in its 21st year and at 5 day long the longest music festival I have been to, it’s still much … Continue readingBlues and roots festival

I’ll skip Melbourne I’ve already been there twice and only stayed one night and then it was the bus to Batemans Bay. Craig and Anna got up at an absurd … Continue readingBateman to Byron (the 2 bays)