41 days to go!

The final flights have now been booked, we are officially going on holiday on the 31st Jan. Megan found cheap flights this morning, 1p each way!! Not bad huh?!?!

44 days to go!

I have spent the afternoon today working out our trip down the east coast from Cairns to Sydney using our east coast discovery pass. I have realised now that this pass also includes coach travel for some sections. not as nice but it'll have to do.

To work out where we wanted to go I basically had to go through every single stop on the network and see whether there was anything there that may be of interest and was it somewhere that we might consider staying for a few days. I also had to take into consideration distances between places as we didn't want too many massive trips.

After a long afternoon of searching I think I have finally cracked it. The initial plan is to stop at the following places:

Cairns, Tully, Mission Beach, Townsville, Magnetic Island, Bundaberg, Brisbane, Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay, Casino, Port Macquarie and finally Sydney.

This is a 1,679 mile route taking in the wettest town in Australia, the great barrier reef, museums, koalas, rainforests, cities, beaches, dolphins and lighthouses. Not bad!

57 days to go, not 63!

We have now found the cheapest flights to Jerez are on the 31st of Jan instead of the 4th Feb so the countdown is reducing more rapidly than i ever could have hoped!!