Our decision for staying in Hawaii was done quite early on. Flying from Australia to the main land of the US takes around 14-15 hours, flying to Hawaii takes 9 hours…. and it’s well worth a small stop! We flew with Air Canada (anything to avoid the US airlines) which …
Our first intentions for this weekend was to make it all the way to the northern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, to Cape Reinga, we were going to see the 90 mile beach and all that comes with it. After a bit of reading we realized that …
About two hours away from Auckland you’ll find the Coromandel Peninsula, we had been planning on going there for a while but hadn’t gotten around to it since we usually go away for a whole weekend. Well, this time we finally made it! Our original plan was to rent a …
Since Queensland doesn’t use daylight savings time, people from New South Wales (and Victoria as well) say that when you cross the border you have to turn your clock back 1 hour + 10 years. People there are supposedly crazy. This has been one of the reasons that I’ve wanted …
So after our stay in Penang we decided that we needed a holiday, so we purchased a combined bus and boat ticket to the Perhentian Islands on the other side of the country. The only reason for purchasing bus tickets was that there were no direct flights to our destination. …
So the minibus to Koh Lanta…what can we say about that? Well, it took us around 5-6 hours from the moment we stepped on the minibus in Khao Lak until we stepped off at Koh Lanta. The minibus was on time and picked us up at Poseidon Bungalows at 8.00am …
Alright….so we haven’t really had the time to write until now, sorry for the delay, but we’ve been busy busy. When we left you guys last time we were just about to leave Singapore. Everything went without a hitch, we got a taxi around 5.30am and got to the airport …
Since I’ve met Suz we’ve talked about lots of different things, one of them is where the whitest sand beach might be! I’ve always told her that it has to be one of the beaches I saw in Thailand, on the Similan Islands, and she tells me that she thinks …
My time here in Thailand is coming to an end, at least for now, I would like to return at a later date to continue working here as I have gotten to know some amazing people during my months here. Not to mention, there is still so much left to …
The Similan Islands, a group of islands in the Andaman Sea about 10-12 km from the mainland, can be reached by fast boat in about an hour which is normally a very bumpy ride, or with our boat, which runs at a slow pace and reaches them in just under …