We had a sad goodbye to Barraba being waved off from the bus stop by our hosts Haddon, Andrew and dog Gus! But, we were moving on to new things! We took a one hour bus into Tamworth, followed by a four hour train to Maitland. Here, we had to wait for five hours so we had a look around the rather sorry-looking town, got a bite to eat then went back to the train station for our nine hour overnight train to Casino. At 4am, we had to change onto a bus to take us to B...

Our last full day in Barraba was spent having an early morning weeding session, followed by a trip to the Tamworth country music festival with Andrew. As I previously mentioned, a lot of people here in Barraba seemed dubious about the festival and weren't too bothered about it, despite this, everyone insisted that we must go! So we did! We arrived on the main street in Tamworth to be surrounded by people either dressed in cowboy hats, rind stone boots and leath...

Two weeks ago I don't think any of us would have expected us to be saying this, but we have surprisingly decided to extend our stay in Barraba! Once again we left it a little bit too late to book our train tickets so the journey was sold out. Apparently it is quite busy at the moment as it is still the school holidays over here. So, as we missed our original leaving date, we have decided to stay for the weekend to have a bit more money and then we will leave on M...

Our first morning in Barraba was insect free! We drove over to the hotel where our host Hadden served us a cooked breakfast! We thought this luxury wasn't going to last! After breakfast we were put to work in the hotel mopping, vacuuming, washing up, cleaning, sweeping endless leaves, arranging and setting tables. We then were sent to the shops in Barraba, which took about two minutes as it is so small, and met some of the local residents. Barraba is the sort o...

Our actual last day was spent in Sydney centre again. We utilised our free tickets to climb one of the pylons at the harbour bridge and visit the museum. We had a little walk around to take in the city before we had a nap in the botanical gardens! We went to Surrey Hills, a nice little area of town, for our tea before retiring back to the Coombes home for another good nights sleep! Today we got up early to catch our train inland to work on a farm in the town of ...