Feeling tired and a bit weary this morning after our late night shenanigans yesterday. To top it off, the weather hasn’t improved which leaves us in a dilemma. We don’t know whether to continue on with our 2 day Noosa kayaking tour or not. We check the weather forecast for the next few days and it pretty much confirms it will be torrential rain and thunderstorms. Greg phones the tour guide to see what he suggests and he tells Greg rather rudely that basically we can either do it in the rain or cancel without refund. We figure as we don’t [View Full Entry]

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I cannot believe it is June already, where has the time gone? Thankfully we have to check out early this morning as if I have to spend another minute in this hostel I might just cry. We make our way along the highway and stop at Australia Zoo- home to the legend the crocodile hunter. It’s a big part of our road trip, as it’s something Greg has been talking about doing since we first arrived in Australia. When we get there the sun is absolutely splitting the sky, but half an hour later it is pouring of rain! We look [View Full Entry]

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Day 6 We reluctantly have to check out of our hostel today and make our way over to Tamborine Mountain- about 25km (15 miles) west of Surfers Paradise. The plan is to do a ropes course at the Thunderbird Adventure Parc, as we never got a chance to do one at Tasmania. The roads are all uphill (not surprising when going up a mountain) and poor Trixie bell doesn’t like it much, especially as she is carrying a little bit of extra weight on her (including 2 large suitcase, 2 small suitcases, 2 crates of beer, a cool box, a bag [View Full Entry]

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Day 3 Feel sad to be leaving our first hostel as it was such a nice place, but we have much more to do and many more exciting adventures to be had! The motorway has been reopened so we head off nice and early towards Byron Bay. When we get about half way, we are unfortunately detoured through Casino and Lismore, as some of the roads are still flooded. That adds about another two hours onto our already long journey, and to top matters off, our speedometer goes crazy and starts spinning around making a loud whirring sound. Greg starts to [View Full Entry]

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WE’RE GOING ON A ROAD TRIP BABY! And so the journey begins… Our plan was to leave at 7.15am today so we could avoid the morning traffic and we actually do manage to leave the house on time for a change. However, we decide to have one last farewell breakfast in Barzura to set us up for the day and to celebrate not having to work for a month, yippee! Words cannot describe how nice it feels to be a customer rather than a member of staff. When we are finished I ask for the bill and I am a bit [View Full Entry]

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Day 1: We set the alarm to go off at 5.45am this morning so we have enough time to get up and organized and drive to the airport before our 7.30am flight. Things don’t go quite as planned though as neither of us hear the alarm and Greg finally wakes me up at 6.20am, doh! So we have 10 minutes to get ready and check out before having to leave for the airport. We just about manage and then it’s a mad dash to the airport. All I can say is I hope there are no speed cameras on the motorway… [View Full Entry]

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Day 1: Our flight to Melbourne is at 8.45am and our flatmate Jacki kindly offers to drive us to the airport on her way to work, even though it is in the opposite direction. We are cutting it fine as per usual and get there with only 5 minutes left to spare to check in. The airport is even busier than Glasgow airport and I have a feeling we won’t make it in time but then a guy from the airport asks if anyone is still waiting to check in for the Melbourne flight, and thankfully we manage to get through. [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so it is Greg doing the latest blog (So this will be brief) as Nik is working this afternoon. If memory serves me correct, the last blog entry was the Blue Mountains which was in January. Since then things have pretty much been the same here in sunny Coogee. We have now reached the end of summer and the temperature is slightly cooler at roughly 25-26 degrees. Practically all of the guys we hung about with over the summer for the last few months have left Sydney. Ian and Sam the two English boys are travelling the east coast in [View Full Entry]

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A rather early start for us as we had a two hour drive to get to the Blue Mountains which is inland and North of New South Wales, just outside Sydney. Surprisingly it is Greg who wakes up first and he has to practically roll me out of bed. You would think that starting work at 6.45am nearly every day would have made me slightly more accustomed to getting up early but that doesn't seem to be the case. By the time we get organised it is nearly half ten so actually not that early a start after all. The ride [View Full Entry]

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Last night in our prison cell dorm tonight as check out is tomorrow. We have definatley decided that we want to live by the beech. After searching and searching for houses, Jacki, the Kiwi from our previous entry says that she would love to have us stay, and the room was ours if we wanted. Feel alot more relaxed now we have somewhere to stay, and can properly now start looking for jobs. We went to another aerobics class, this time closer to home in a place called Randwick. Can't believe we are doing the exact same class 19,000 kilometres away [View Full Entry]

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