We’d originally planned to take a day trip to the Blue Mountains, as this is what most people seemed to do. However, as I’d accepted a week’s work at Code Camp back in Sydney which meant we couldn’t leave on the greyhound for another 2 weeks, we decided to make a longer trip to the mountains. The main reason behind this was very much financial (not wanderlust or wanting to experience more of the mountains, I don’t know if this makes us good travellers o...

So we hopped (sloped?) onto our first, and longest to date, greyhound bus at 10pm 2 days before New Years Eve, ready to make the 12 hour journey up to Sydney. Luckily, I managed to swap seats as me and David hadn’t been seated together, which for 12 hours would have been annoying! Equally as luckily, the journey seemed to fly as much as a journey like that can, with both of us getting sleep in each of the sections of travel, getting off a few times at the rest ...