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The 13hour bus journey actually wasn't as bad as i thought, i must have slept a fair bit because it seemed to pass by quickly enough despite the fact i was being used as a pillow by a welsh girl who would be on the same Fraser trip. The hostel had a mini bus waiting at the bus depo which made my day as i really didnt want to have to have to wander round tryin to find the place, once at the hostel i treated myself to a great 2 hours of sleep and then headed out for some lunch at a bar / reataraunt place, looking at the menu i decided that a spicy tuna roll sounded good so i went ahead and orderd it and sat back content with my choice, 10 minutes ... read more

Im back! I'd have updated sooner but my camera was on the blink and wouldnt turn on, after some intensive investigation the battery charger was discovered as the fault and has been replaced,and on a similar subject ive also had to buy a new phone.Exciting stuff! I have ended up in a little town called Dunsborough in the south west of WA which is slap bang in the middle of the wine region. I was sent down here origionally by the guy who ran a job centre at my hostel in Perth along with 7 others to do some grape vine pruning and after a 3hr hung over bus journey from hell i arrived and my first impressions of the place were alot better than that last dump - there are people here and shops and ... read more

My job ended so i left Melbourne on a 3 week road trip to Darwin. I looked at tours and decided they were to expensive so then i looked around the Hostels for people with a car who were loooking for travel mates heading the same way, i found 3 people called Suzi (germany), Rick (netherlands) and Heiner (germany) and they wanted to do the exact route i had in mind, so a week after losing the job i finally left Melbourne and first up was the Great Ocean Road. Suzi and Rick slept in the camper van and Heinen and i were assigned a crap tent. As far as roads next to oceans go i gotta admit this one was pretty great, our first stop was at the world famous Bells Beach which to ... read more

Well, im still in good old Melbourne, and im a working man once again! But first i should tell you all that i saw new years in on the beach, it was warm and not a gale or rain cloud in sight, i dont recall much of the evening as i had a cold which meant i managed to get way more drunk way quicker than normal, but i awoke in the morning in my own bed and in one piece with a half eaten sausage roll next to my head - and yes i did finish it of for breakfast. For the past 3 weeks i have been running round random suburbs "delivering" Yellow Pages, the idea is that you are meant to be able to do 2 loads per day - 420 books per ... read more

My first stop after i left Sydney was good old Coffs Harbour which is further up the east coast and took about 8 hours to reach on the train, the train felt really slow but when i spoke to people who did the same journey on the bus it turned out to be pretty much the same. I chose Coffs Harbour only because it was the first place i had heard of, it was a nice little town and the weather was good while i was there, it felt really small after Sydney but also a nice change. As it happened the night i arrived at the Aussietel hostel it was punch night! They had a huge drum thing holding loads of punch and you just kept on filling your mug up again and again, and ... read more