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 go a bit crazy with the sound and I think at one point he is going to pop a vein in his forehead. We pull over at the side of a quiet road in the ... read more

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… We get to the airport at just after 7am and I have a feeling we aren’t going to make it, as the check in usually shuts half an hour before the flight is due to ... read more

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 a camper van, Tom from Cardiff is in Perth, and Gaz and Dean from Scotland left just after NYE. All that remains is myself, Nik, Dom from Swindon and Dean's cousin Hayley, which is a ... read more

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 from home. Bit of a long way to go for aerobics, but worth it. Thought we would struggle, but surprisingly we were okay. Had to vacate our room at 10 am which is a pain. ... read more

6th November- Can't believe it, after months of dreaming of sunnier climates we wake up to torrential rain. It's not even warm rain, it's freezing! Have to put on the only trousers I own which I've also been wearing for the last three days. Take a wander in the rain and stumble upon a British pub called the Elephant and the Wheelbarrow. Just have to stop in and see what the local beer is like, it would be wrong not to. End up ordering two pints of Tooheys which is very delicious indeed. After our refreshments we head down to CBD (central business district) where I end up buying tights to try and keep my poor wee legs warm. Afterwards we head up to King's Park (ironically) which is a beautiful big park on the edge ... read more

Arrived at Sydney airport at about 6.30pm, slightly tipsy after the air steward forced more free alcohol down my throat... Went to the information desk to find out the best way to get to our hostel and were told we should get the airport shuttle bus which will drop us off straight at the hostel door. Everything seems to be going smoothly apart from the mad Asian driver who seems to be exchanging some harsh words with the operator on the other end of the transmittor, who keeps calling him a "foreign c@#%". Nice. Next thing the bus does a lap of the airport and then arrives back at the terminal where we started. We sit there for another fifteen minutes and then eventually we are off again. It's not a long journey to the hostel ... read more