Best Western Edinburgh City Hotel Cairns

... I couldn't stop laughing the whole way back! A couple of people were sea sick, I don't think they found the sailing as fun as I did.... It was a terrific experience, and one I plan to relive in the Whitsunday Islands sometime next week.

I rented a car from a company called Rent-a-Bomb, they rent out used cars at low rates. The car I had sure was a bomb! It was an old Toyota with 300,000kms on the ...

... with a wallabie and Ivo finally lured a Dingo out of its cool and shadowy hiding place by doing some impressive wolf howling ... Woooohoooooooooo! Wrhafff!

We have now just arrived in Cairns and booked ourselves on a 5 day diving course which includes a few nights sleeping on a luxury vessel on the Great Barrier Reef. In addition we are also preparing for the arrival of Ivo's parents. We'll tell you all about it once we are back!

Cheerio!

Ivo & Annemieke

... bed, or sewweed or anything at all really. In fact the only time I’ve ever really been comfortable in the sea is when on a horse or a surfboard. Perhaps it’s the distraction they provide but without them I have always been on the over cautious side when it comes to water. I was finally convinced to learn to swim at the age of 11 when going on holiday to Italy with family friends who I was bought to believe were school champion swimmers and so I finally obliged and ...

... amp; have not been not on my own since arriving as there is loads of people travelling alone here. I feel very settled in OZ already.
I have not a boring time here & a few funny things have happened but mainly at my expense.
Firstly was sunbathing at the Lagoon as there is no beach here & a horrible creature in the sky shat on me not once but 3 times throughout the same day, I couldn't believe it, once you can cope with ...

... to downtown. It’s totally a resort town, the feel of it on first impression felt like we were in Cancun again, but with Australian accents everywhere.
Once again, our wicked Accor Hotel special came through for us again. We were able to stay at the 5 star Pullman Reef Hotel & Casino which for us was really posh. A bit too luxurious for our usual tastes, but no one’s complaining!

We unpacked quickly, sprayed on ...

... Segelwetter. Das Highlight des Tages war natürlich das Schnorcheln am Riff. Von der Klarheit des Wassers und dem damit verbundenen Grauton der Korallen war ich nicht so überzeugt, wohl aber von den Fischen. Es ist schon ein kleiner Adrenalinkick wenn plötzlich lautlos ein 2m Hai an einem vorbeischwimmt. Nach dem Mittag setzten wir über auf die Green Island, eine von Tourismus ausgebeutete Koralleninsel ...

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... to board our bus. So funny. Another bus trip, i think i have been on the whole Greyhound fleet by now. This time a short 6 hours up to Townsville, where we took a ferry over to Magnetic Island. Such a gorgeous island, loads of beaches, bays and fantastic hills/scenery. We checked into our not so plush place this time. NO TV!! it was a little hut type dorm that we shared with 6 others. Beacause it was on a nature reserve there were bugs ...

Hi All Backtrack one day to our last in Sydney . We went to the beautiful Manly Beach .it was 22c so very pleasant .Billy got a bit sunburned . After spending a few very pleasant hours in Manly, we got the ferry back to Circular Quay. We wanted to go to our now special restaurant in Sydney Philip's Boot , Due to valentines say it was all booked out , we were disappoint . Sunday we left for Cairns . I had to ...

... telly!

The film is probably a couple of hours long, but on Aussie telly they have the MOST commercial breaks that I've ever seen, they're even worse than America!

This meant that the 2 hour film actually lasted over 3 hours! It was a struggle, but you know when you ...