Woke up a tiny bit hungover today, went out last night with the hostel people who are so friendly. But wanted to head to the blue mountains so got up showered and ate then left with a few girls from my room at the blue parrot they are German, Chilean, and Czech. We took the train to Katoomba the little town where the mountains are and it took 2 hours. We sat in the quiet carriage but I don't think anyone noticed so they were chatting the whole way but I was soo embarrassed as I know how seriously they take it here because I have already been told off twice in the quiet zone! People didn't look very impressed with us. We walked down to the mountains and took the steep mine train down to ... read more

Arrived in Sydney yesterday on the train from Woy Woy. We checked into the hostel and left our stuff so that we could explore the city. We went to see the opera house and the harbour bridge and it was amazing! we sat and had a late lunch at this lovely cafe on the waters edge over looking both the bridge and the opera house. Then we continued walking round to the opera house to get a close up and have a peak inside the gift shop and foyer and to take more pictures. Then we had a beer at the bar on the edge of the opera house with the sunset almost behind the bridge. We walked back to the hostel watched movies and went to bed. Woke up this morning and had a hungry ... read more

I went on the best walk yesterday; I walked all the way to the top of the hill on the peninsula called the Skillion it has the most spectacular views over the towns and the bays and is a really great place to do whale watching, sadly I didn't spot any whales. Then I walked from there back into the town and right along the beach to the other end of the bay, it took me about an hour to walk right the way along but the beach is beautiful and I was leaving my footprints in the sand! I stopped to watch the the surfers and someone fishing for something very odd.. it was almost as if he was trying to catch something in these little bags in the dregs of the water leaving the ... read more

This is my first entry... the start of my journey! I have made it to Singapore... not what I expected after coming from the clean tiled Dubai airport... Singapore airport is a bit hot and stuffy (although I did notice on the map on the plane on the way here that its very close to the Equator!) and it has granny carpet.. like the brown red green, spotty patterned carpet!! I am here for a few hours so going to have a shop around.. lots of Asian techno stores and kids toy stores... and on the other hand very expensive designer stores!.. Might try the food too but I am a bit worried because of the fish sushi situation! so I have spotted a subway.. nothing like getting a taste of the culture!!! Well my time ... read more