We were up early in the morning on Saturday to take the train from Sydney to a small town called Katoomba, which is right in the middle of The Blue Mountains. The journey was only about two hours long, and we found the hostel easily after a short walk, so the morning was pretty stress-free. When we arrived at the hostel we were told that they had a spare double room for the night, so they let us stay there for no extra charge even though we had only booked into...

We arrived in Sydney on Wednesaday 22nd July after a ten hour bus journey from Coffs Harbour. The journey was actually fine as we stopped a few times. We arrived at about midnight and walked about ten minutes to our hostel using the handy map I had drawn the day before. It turned out our hostel was mainly a pub with loads of dorm rooms above and no reception. We had to get the bouncer of the pub to wake someone up to let us in. We finaly got into our room, and go...

During our time in Coffs Harbour we were staying with a family that we met during our trek in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We had kept in touch since with the occasional email, and when we let them know we were heading there way they were kind enough to give us a room for a few days. We met Brett and Nydean at the bus stop after a 4 hour journey, with Amy still on a high as we had seen our first Kangaroo standing in a field as we drove past. We packed all our stuff i...