2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/shanpam/rss.xml Hi everyone and welcome to our blog.  On the 3rd June 2011 we packed our bags and left Guernsey and set off for one month round South East Asia- Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore before coming to Australia on a years working holiday visa. We also went to the amazing country of New Zealand. This blog is for our family and friends and people who have came across the blog so please read, enjoy and hopefully learn some things and maybe get jealous! Xx We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we will enjoy living it! Love Shannon and Pamela x http://www.getjealous.com/shanpam http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2718293&go=shanpam We are now home after travelling for almost 13 months, or 55 weeks, or 388 days. We have been to 8 counties over 3 continents, seen 7 capital cities and went to 6 of the 8 Australian state capitals. It definitely feels weird to be back. Good weird and bad weird. Good because we are home and enjoying home comforts, from food to sleeping arrangements, to seeing friends and family. But bad because... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2718293&go=shanpam Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2714740&go=shanpam So the journey home began by wakening up at 4am on Sunday and getting a shuttle bus to the airport, we had arrived early but needed to check our luggage weight on scales, we were a little shocked to see we were over weight but we emptied out our 'maybe' pile and were good, when we got to check in though we were told it wasn't 23kg as we thought but a massive 30kg each so I retrieved the 'maybes' a... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2714740&go=shanpam Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2714694&go=shanpam Arriving back in Sydney we put adverts up on Gumtree and posters on hostel notice boards to try sell the van. Within the day we had phone calls asking to view the van. The first couple who viewed it put in an offer and we sold it to them after bargaining them for another few days (as the hostels can end up being expensive). We were sad to see our home of 4 months go but the fat wad of cash and th... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2714694&go=shanpam Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2713997&go=shanpam After spending a third of our Australian adventure in our campervan it was time to sell up our home. We had a great time and experience travelling around- surprising really as it was just an ex tradies van but the bed was comfortable (for the majority), had enough storage to keep all our crap hidden and apart from the odd tyre trouble the engine went a treat (and apart from using the choke to sta... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2713997&go=shanpam Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2712224&go=shanpam Left South Australia and started our journey on the Great Ocean Road. The road was built by soldiers who returned from the WW1, as it gave them jobs and put them back into normality, it was built in remembrance for those who had died in the war. The reason it was built was to do exactly as it is named, be a great ocean drive, and to rival Los Angeles great drive. Our first stop was 'Bay of Island... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2712224&go=shanpam Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710782&go=shanpam Crossing the border from the Northern Territory into South Australia, we continued to see more of the same vast landscape, even turning a little more red than that out the outback. Also the clear blue skies gave way to a little well deserved drizzle of rain. Our first stop in S.A was the Opal mining town of Coober Pedy. It can get very hot and humid there so 80% of the houses are built underground... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710782&go=shanpam Fri, 25 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710722&go=shanpam An easier days drive to Ayers Rock today, but if it had been long it'd still have been worth it. We arrived late afternoon and got ready for the magical sunset which changed the colour of the sky and the rock changed from its usual red to a dark red/brown then into it's nightly black. We ate our dinner facing Ayers Rock- or now commonly known by it's aboriginal name Uluru. After the fun was over w... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710722&go=shanpam Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710689&go=shanpam Left Darwin and headed 670km back down to Katherine. We visited the famous Nitmiluk National Park, and climbed to see the awesome Nitmiluk Gorge previously known as Katherine Gorge. The gorge is huge and was tiresome to climb (for me, not Shan). You can explore for days but we were happy with seeing a little. On the trek back down we came across hundreds of kangaroos just eating their dinner. One ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2710689&go=shanpam Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709603&go=shanpam Alarm set very early, had a long hot shower then headed all the way to Darwin, it was 969km and took us exactly 12 hours. It was a long drive with more of the same but we passed by hundreds of bush fires which were close to the road, the flames licking up and branches crackling with the heat and the smoke rose high into the clear blue sky. It was 33 degrees in Darwin when we arrived and it didn... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709603&go=shanpam Mon, 14 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709600&go=shanpam Left Cairns with our hitchhikers in tow, our friends Conor and Jade who we took down to Townsville, they are looking for farm work and Cairns wasn't kind to them, just like it wasn't for us last year. We dropped them off and then we carried on driving leaving the east coast behind us and travelled to Charter Towers. Within our first 15 minutes we had seen umpteen road trains which are huge and we ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2709600&go=shanpam Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT