Escaping Australia!
In and around World
My time in Australia is coming to a close and rather than heading straight home I'm going on five months of travelling taking in some places I've been wanting to go for ages.
They are a little random though mainly due to opportunities to go various places coupled with a few that I have to go to due to wedding commitments (not mine).
Therefore my itinerary is (roughly): Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brisbane, Fiji, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, La Coruna, London. Although that could change depending on how things go!!
My travel companion for most of the trip will be Dave, my Canadian cousin and you can keep track of his version of the trip at www.robertsinaustralia.blogspot.com to see if i'm making it all up!! For the La Coruna to London part of the trip (which will be in a tall ship), my companion will be Pete, a mate of mine from Cornwall, who doesn't have a travel blog (yet) but I'll see if I can badger him into getting one!!
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler hornet
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Road trip with Chalky
As part of my last weekend in Brisbane, Chalky and I decided to do a little road-trip. With no plan at all we chucked a few things in the back of h... Continue reading »
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Fraser Island
I managed to drag the Canadians out of bed fairly early and we gathered all our stuff and caught a cab to the car rental place to collect our 4WD:... Continue reading »
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Around and about Brisbane
The day before we headed up to Fraser Island we took a trip up to Australia Zoo. We got there just in time for the run of shows that they do in the Cr... Continue reading » -
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A weekend in Sydney
We arrived in Sydney late friday night. It was a smooth flight thankfully and also pretty quick. The luggage also came off pretty quick which was a... Continue reading »
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The Blue Mountains
We set off fairly early on Tuesday morning following the Western Freeway out to the Blue Mountains. It took us about an hour to get into the Blue M... Continue reading »
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A day trip to Canberra
Our next stop was Canberra - some 300km away and we managed to make it as far as Goulburn before finding ourselves a motel and crashing for the night.... Continue reading » -
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Back to Sydney
We arrived back in to Sydney about 3-ish on Thursday and, thanks to a last minute hotel website, got a superb deal on a two bedroomed suite right i... Continue reading »
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On to Melbourne
We arrived in Melboure on Sunday evening to find something I hadn't experience for a while: cold!
Caela has a lovely flat in the suberb of Po... Continue reading »
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The Little Penguins
On Tuesday we had a late start but were booked on a tour to Phillip Island - home of Little Penguins. We caught the tour bus at 1 and we headed out of... Continue reading » -
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The 'G' (and other Sports stuff)
Wednesday was an early start to get to Federation Square for 8:30 to be collected. We were a small group - Dave and I, two English girls, an Englis... Continue reading »
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Great Ocean Road and the last few days of Melbourne
Early start to go collect the car and then headed off down towards Geelong and Torquay where the start of the Great Ocean Road is. Weather wasn't on... Continue reading » -
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Perth & Kings Park
Got into Perth about midday after a fairly good flight. Our hotel was in the suburb of Northbridge - just north of the main CBD. It's a kind of asi... Continue reading »
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Fremantle and the Gaol
Took the train south to Fremantle, which is a small fishing town on the mouth of the Swan River. It's about a half hour train journey and most of the... Continue reading » -
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Rottnest Island
Caught the train down to Fremantle to join up with the Rottnest Express - the ferry heading over to Rottnest Island. The ferry passage was nice an... Continue reading » -
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The Valley of the Giants
A very early start for our trip down to the south coast of WA. We got collected and dropped off in the city centre before boarding a bus and heading s... Continue reading » -
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Final weekend in Perth
We had a slow start to the day as we were tired but eventually stirred ourselves to go and get breakfast, ok lunch, do a bit of blogging and post a pa... Continue reading » -
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Stop-over in Kuala Lumpur
We arrived in KL at about 10 in the evening - about the time Watford were kicking off their play-off final so no chance to see it. I hadn't realise... Continue reading »
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Bangkok
The flight to Bangkok was bumpy - certainly the worst of our flights so far but it was a short one and I'm getting a lot better at dealing with them.... Continue reading » -
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Patong Beach
The bus was a little scary with a tendency to roll from side to side even when going in straight lines. We were a little cramped in but the air-con wo... Continue reading » -
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Ko Phi Phi and the Beach
The following day we had organised to go to Ko Phi Phi island on a tour. We were picked up from the hotel about 8 and were taken by minibus to the Roy... Continue reading » -
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Elephants, Monkeys and James Bond Island
Picked up at 8 again today for another busy day. Bit of a different group today - three couples all independently from Melbourne and an Israe... Continue reading »
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Escaping Thailand
Our final full day in puked was another beach day. Managed to get a really decent breakfast (and a cup of tea!!!).
We were out there for half... Continue reading »
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The Temples of Angkor Wat
Due to the fact that it is really hard to get to Siem Reap in Cambodia without being ripped off by land, we decided to fly and managed to get a fairly... Continue reading » -
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Phnom Penh and the Killing Fields
Another early start as we were collected to get to our bus at 6:40. The bus stop was teeming with buses and people and it was a mad rush to get on... Continue reading »
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A bit of rain and some football
The flight from Phnom Penh to Hanoi via Vientiane was fairly comfortable. I'm certainly getting a lot better at this flying lark, although we had t... Continue reading »
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Halong Bay
A very early start but unfortunately no water so showers weren't available so killed time watching the end of Argentina v Ivory Coast. Two people from... Continue reading » -
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Hué and the Citadel
The train journey down was long and pretty uneventful. The annoying %^*(%(%()% woke us up at 6 with a PM announcement and I still have no idea why. Th... Continue reading » -
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Hoi An and the My Son Temples
We arrived into Hoi-An at about 5:30 and were greeted by a throng of people wanting us to use their hotel. We had arranged with out Hue hotel (famil... Continue reading » -
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Sitting on the beach in Nha Trang
We had probably our worst bus journey to get to Nha Trang - the only seats left were at the back and slightly raised so that when people in front pu... Continue reading » -
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Final Destination: Saigon
The bus to Saigon was our last long bus ride and was fairly uneventful except for one girl being sick. She nearly made it out of the bus but threw u... Continue reading » -
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The Cu Chi Tunnels
Up early (again!) for our trip to the Cu-Chi tunnels just 20km north of Saigon. It took over an hour to get there due to all the motos, then bad roads... Continue reading » -
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Cruise down the Mekong (without being shot at)
A very painful 6AM start for our Mekong Delta tour. Bit of a debacle on collection - there were seven people on the bus when we got in and five were o... Continue reading » -
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The Mammoth Journey
A welcome lie in on our last morning in SE Asia and we packed ourselves up for our Odyssey back to Brisbane. We had time for a bit of shopping and hag... Continue reading »
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