My birthday was just round they corner so I decided I didn't want to spend it in the city. We'd heard from a day tripper to South Sea Island in Fiji, that the beaches north of Sydney were really beautiful, but to go a bit more north to avoid the crowds. We checked our faithful guide book and it listed them, Avalon won our vote so we jumped on a bus and headed on our way. Avalon is a really nice sea side town. It was little cafes and fun little shops and a really...

AUSTRALIA! Woohoo. We arrived in Oz unaware that it was Mardi Gras, one of the biggest weekends in the Sydney calender, so of course everywhere was really booked up! Luckily, as usual, we found somewhere calle dBoomerang that was near the centre. We spent the next couple days doing the tourist thing. The opera house was never something that really appealed to me but of course we went there to say we'd done it and in fact it is beautiful. Nothing like I expected...