Australia time-Our two days in Darwin

So Australia, I had no idea what to expect. My basic knowledge of the country being constructed from Neighbours, Priscilla queen of the desert and Hugh Jackman (also that Justin Timberlake's 20/20 world tour finishes here, that ones for you cass!!). Safe to say Darwin was none of these things but a real nice surprise. 

We arrived on our flight from bali at 5.40am, not fully alert we somehow managed to find the airport shuttle and arrive at the hostel. The nice receptionist told us she'd find us a room for 11am, which meant two very sleepy girls had 5 hours to kill. We asked for some advise and were told to head to the harbour. As we got closer we saw the sun rising, a first and hopefully last of this trip, and it was stunning.

The harbour area was beautiful, although for the first time since England we were both freezing cold. We needed warming up and found the perfect cafe to do so.

The sun eventfully started to warm everything up and we spotted a few hawks/eagles? flying around.

It was soon 11 and we were in our room in record time and asleep even quicker. I'd love to say we didn't waste the day and sleep for too long, but we woke up at 2pm headed out for food and some exploring. Found the best food shop ever, not biased at all on this one.

Darwin is surprisingly quite a small town, for some reason I assumed all places were going to be big because oz is such a big country. I feel a few of these 'ideas' I've got of oz are going to be corrected pretty soon. But anyway as we saw the sun rise it was only fitting for our first day to see it set too. 

The second day we tried to make up for our napping the day before and went for a walk, boy it was a long walk. We did see so,e good sights though, found a beach, did a coastal walk and found a place called Fannie bay. And yes I did chuckle at that.

So there you have it 2 days in Darwin, was pretty cool can't wait to see what the rest of oz brings. And of course no day would be complete without a koala or two.

Fingers crossed I'll be seeing the real deal soon!!

All that bali

Bali time is nearly over ( as I type this in cairns, opps). The last week we spent chilling at various beachs, so nothing really blog worthy. For my last bali post I thought I'd share some of my fav pics that haven't quite made it on here yet. They're from all over and there will be no real order to it.

Let's get this show on the road with a nice pic of me and Nik in lembongan.

Us girls at ulu watu temple.

When we met up with Lewis and headed out to sky garden ( a club/bar with a killer buffet for £2.50)

And a few more from the same place but this time one of Jane and Jens last nights.

Another gorgeous sunset in kuta.

A little bit of sanur..

My first home made salad of the trip.

Out last couple of days were spent back in kuta so we were near to the airport. It was only then that I realised how much bali loved me, these 'I heart Ali, were everywhere.

And last but not least, Nik trying on trainers with a plastic bag as their version of a sock. You crazy kids bali.

Bali has been an amazing month of meeting new friends, and seeing some fantastic places. Until next time. 

My birthday!

So as a lot of you may know it was my 25th birthday recently and if you'd like to what one does to celebrate a birthday in bali, read on....

First things first I woke up and opened my pressie and cards. (Not a morning person as you can tell)

And played with my balloons, which Nikki had got up at 5am to blow up in the loo.

The day got instantly better when breakfast was serve on the iPad.

Brownies for breakfast wooooo.

We slowing packed and up moved the 5 minutes down the road to the much nicer birthday treat hotel. And yes I packed up my balloons and took them too, just a few funny looks.

This place was lush, so posh that we even got our own slippers.

We did find one problem though...

The bathroom was very open planned, about 2 mins later we realise there was a blind.

We had a little chill time and then headed off for a stressful afternoon of manicures and pedicures.

Would like to add a special thanks to my auntie pam and uncle dave, whose birthday money paid for my pampering (as well as some of my dinner, but that's later on). Thanks so much.

The finished product, which is still going strong over a week later.

After a busy afternoon, we chilled in the hotel in the cosiest beds ever. Something about having a crisp white duvet, makes me miss my bed so much. We then started getting ready to head out for the evening.

To a firm favourite of ours.

Safe to say we had eyes bigger than stomachs as per usual and were soon feeling a bit full.

We soon recovered but not enough for desert. Being that i started the day with brownie possibly not a bad thing.

I had a really good day, like to say thanks for all the cards paper and online, emails and general birthday messages from everyone (I especially loved my skype session wth Sir Charles, although not sure if he knew what was happening as my mum picked him up lion king style towards to the camera). It definitely took the edge of turning 25.