We arrived in Canberra at about 8pm after a 3 1/2 hour bus from Sydney. Marion picked us up from the bus station and we drove home. Paul had made a tasty meal of chicken and pasta. We miss home cooking. After that we stayed up for ages drinking wine and chatting, eventually getting to bed about 3am. The next day we didn't do too much. When we got up Marion and Paul had gone to work. We hung around the house doing a bit of the blog and watching tv. Travelling's h...

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...

We arrived in Byron Bay on Tuesday 14th July by bus. The journey from Brisbane was fine, only took a few hours. We drove past our campsite on the way in and were gutted when we realised we'd have to walk back there with all our gear. We made it though, it was about a 20 min walk. The campsite was realively empty and we pitched our tent at the end of a field. Alan didn't listen to my tent advice so it took longer to put up than in should have done. We got it up j...