Revised Itinerary...

Well, we're 7 months into our trip and so far it has all been fantastic, we've seen and done some great things. One thing we've learned however is that we don't have enough time realisticly to see all the countries we originally had planned to see. As we spent longer in Fiji and New Zealand we're running a bit behind schedule and would eventually mean we'd end up with about 3 weeks in China. Now China is a big country and we just couldn't do it justice in 3 weeks so we've decided to scrap China. We've also decided to scrap Japan as it's very expensive and as we're scrapping China we will realisticly have to scrap that too......hopefully we'll be able to see them on another trip. So, our journey now ends in Hong Kong. We have also decided not to go to Indonesia too as lots of dodgy things have been happening there recently and we can live without that, it also means we get to spend longer in Thailand where everything is cheap as chips.....looking forward to that!

So, there are our reasons for changing things. Our new plan is as follows:

Weds 21 Jun Fly from Sydney to Singapore
Sat 24 Jun 17 day tour from Singapore to Bangkok (Thailand)
Mon 10 Jul Arrive in Bangkok and meet up with Chris and Katie for a couple of weeks :-)
Fri 11 Aug 7 day tour from Bangkok through Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Sat 19 Aug 14 day tour through Vietnam to Hanoi
Sat 2 Sep Fly from Hanoi (Vietnam) to Hong Kong
Tues 12 Sep Fly from Hong Kong to Heathrow (London!!)
Weds 13 Sep Sleep
Thurs 14 Sep More sleep!
Fri 15 Sep Start with the UK tour, visiting Newbury, Thatcham, Nottingham
and Somerset!
Sun 1 Oct Find somewhere to live.........

All the dates up until the 12th Sep are rigid, we have to stick to them as the tours we have are booked and paid for and the dates have already been changed once, we can't change them again. So another couple of months in Oz, still a lot more here for us to see here, then we're off to pastures new :-)