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...

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 ...