After taking much longer than most, and stopping off in a variety of NSW towns, we finally arrived for our 3 days in Byron Bay. As we predicted, the bus emptied as we arrived in Byron and we spilled onto the busy street, filled with Backpackers, tourists and shops! Our tired selves immediately got tricked into entering a touristy shop, where they tried to sell us a travel package! But after escaping the clutches of ‘Happy Travels’, we set off on the very shor...

As we made our way up to the north of New South Wales, we were getting a bit tired of spending hours every day on a bus, so we decided to break up the journey by visiting little towns on the way. One of these towns I had read about in an article on underrated places to visit on the East Coast. This was Yamba, only a short drive from Coffs Harbour (luckily, because the Greyhound air con broke and began dropping water on everyone!) From what I knew already, we wer...

The next stop on our East Coast Itinerary was Coffs Harbour, a mere 6 or so hours on the coach from Newcastle. We also realised on this long journey that we had little to no clue how we were going to get to the hostel when we exited the bus, as it was around a 45 minute walk away (with a backpack weighing the equivalent of a small child....just no). When we arrived in the Bus ‘station’, we envisioned finding a building, with maybe a cafe and most probably so...

After leaving Sydney, we had a plan for maybe the next week, but also vaguely knew what the rest of our trip would look like, as we had a bus ticket all the way up to Cairns. The generic trip up the coast would go from Sydney straight to Byron Bay and then onwards, and this is the journey that most of the backpackers on our 6.30am coach were taking. Yet, we’d decided to make a fair few stops throughout New South Wales on the way up, because 1) Who wants to ma...

As mentioned, the whole reason for going to Katoomba (Blue Mountains), in the first place was to bide time and save money until my work began, so we headed back to Sydney for what would be 6 days. We rented out a room at the University, as 1) it was the holidays and they were renting them out and 2) It was massively cheaper than any hostel (always money saving!). It actually turned out that we got an upgrade while staying here, so as well as the private room w...