Arrived in Surfers Paradise on 10th January and stayed here for 3 nights at Aquarius Backpackers. This was our first experience of a proper hostel and having to share rooms! It was fine apart from the room was so hot it felt like a sauna in there!! the hostel itself was about 15 minutes out of Surfers by car, we went in on our first full day. We went down to the beach but was starting to rain so didn't spend long there. Looked like it would be a nice beach in the...

Set off for Byron Bay on 7th January from Sydney, eventually after a 14 hour bus ride we made it to Byron. Arrived late on so just had a wander through town and found where the beach was (all the important stuff!). Our only full day we decided to spend on the beach but there was a huge downour as we got outside so had to wait for a bit to get on there. Spent a few hours lazing on the beach and even felt a couple of light showers while we were there.....these blog...

Arrived in Sydney on 27th December and are staying with Becky F's aunty and uncle, Geri and Andy. Have been enjoying lots of lovely home comforts, yes including a flushing toilet! haha. On our first day we went to Manly beach for lunch and a wander around. Then in the evening we got the ferry in to the city and had drinks at a bar overlooking the harbour bridge (such a hard life!). On our second day we did the tourist thing in the city and visited The Rocks, Ope...

Arrived in Singapore on 22nd December after an overnight train journey from Kuala Lumpur. On our first day we went to Orchard Road which is the main shopping street and did more window shopping! There was a free shuttle bus from our hotel to Orchard Road which was good as bit too far to walk it. Went back to Orchard Road for tea and was strange to see the street all lit up with Xmas decorations, doesn't feel like Xmas in the warmth!! On the second day we did lot...

Well not that much to write for KL really!! Have spent 6 nights here but found that you can do most things in a day or 2! Did the touristy things like visiting the Petronas Twin Towers, the KL Tower and went for tea in Chinatown. Other than that have spent a lot of time chilling out and doing window shopping!!! Have had a pool at the hotel so spent a few mornings by that but only get sun for a little bit and then its cloudy by about 1pm. Oh its such a hard life...