Well today is now the morning after the night before! Maybe mum, you are right, shouldn't update the site when we have had a few drinks! Was a really good nite tho. The hostel is kinda in the middle of nowhere, the people are friendly, everyone is really chilled out and there are hammocks all over the place. Very hippy kinda vibe! We both totally loved it.

so what did we tell you? We will continue with the backwards theme for today so i can try and remember what we've done!

The wine tour in Newcastle was lovely, some of the vineyards are so beautifull. really good day, not just for the drinking of wine, but kor the knowledge and chance to test which ones you really like. The Dragons breath is really very lethal though! Woah!

so that was Newcastle really, not much there other than that, a pretty beach some surf, but not really warm enough for us to venture into the sea yet!

Before that was a day of boring driving to get there from Manly, Manly was sooooo nice, could have stayed there for ages, For those of you that know where i mean Manly is to Bondi, what Crantock in to Newquay! Just so much cleaner and friendlier and all round nicer place to stay. really worth a visit. we had a good room mate too which helped. Between us we found a great way to cook a decent meal too! we traded some rice and a potatoe for some saussages and curry paste, all three of us had the most amazing saussage curry and a strange but lovely saussage chilli con carne! We ate meat!!!! Gotta be the first real meal with real meat for over a week! We are too poor to buy meat every day so learning to do some really interesting things with potatoes, carrots and pasta! kinda getting the hang of it now! all meals have been edible and Aine's certainly not starving anyway!

We had a day trip to the Blue Mountains, they are so beautifull, the sheer amount of space there is just breathtaking. we got hold of a tour itinery and made it up our selves! saved us best part of $90 and had a really nice chilled out day seeing the bits we wanted and at our own pace. bought coffees and ice creams and had a really good day. The drive back was slightly interesting though. all the roads we could find were not on the map and the foads on the map were no where to be seen or didn't go where they were supposed to go! we didn't exactly get lost, we just weren't always 100% sure where we were! Think Aine had had enough of me directing by then so we got home, had a cup of tea and went to bed!

What else have we done? We went back to bondi for two days, after Sydney. Sydney was good but a little too busy for us, got used to the chilled out life! (God help us when we have to go back to work in a few months! lets not think about that yet!) Towns are grest for shopping, going out, doing all the things that involve money we haven't got! But in all reality we are too tired at the end of the day to hit the town, takes us effort to get a bottle of wine and stay in! think we are getting old! So, yeah, ran away from sydney and chilled in Bondi for a few days, did get a train over to Sydney for one day but walked around the park and tried to dodge all the joggers!

think that is about it, well we've done loads of other things but can't poss get all of it on here or will have nothing to tell you when we get home!

Well all thet leaves is for us to wish you all lots of love and hugs, the sun is shining and things are looking brighter up the coast so a chill out afternoon is in order beore the zoo and dollphins tomorow.

talk to you all soon. Love from both of us. xxx