Happy new year everyone and welcome to my final blog from Australia. I'm back where I started in Sydney having spent the last 6 weeks travelling all over this vast country. It will be weird to leave as 6 weeks is the longest I am spending in any single country on my travels, but I am excited and ready to head on up to South East Asia. My 8 hour Qantas flight to Singapore departs tomorrow afternoon, and after a very brief one night stay there I fly on up to Bangko...

Hello for the second time from Sydney (for the first blog click the drop down box). My 6 day stay in this city is almost at an end. Tomorrow at the horrific time of 7.30am my Contiki tour departs from a nearby hotel, bound first for Port Stephens, 2.5 hours north. It will be strange to leave after nearly a week here, which is the longest I've spent anywhere in 3 months, but I'm definitely ready to meet my new tour group. Every single person who has stayed in my 4...

Good evening from Down Under. I have made it to Australia and am now midway through a 6 day stay in the country's signature city, Sydney. The early morning flight with Jetstar really took it out of me, although the flight itself ran smoothly. They at least offered in-flight entertainment TV's for a small fee, which saved me 3 hours of complete boredom. When I stepped off the plane I was hugely disappointed to find the weather was a bit miserable. It was very wind...