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...

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 ...