While still on the Greyhound heading towards the city centre we turned a corner and suddenly realised that we would be driving across the Sydney harbour bridge! Of course this also meant that by looking down to our left as we crossed, we caught our first view of the Opera House. We were excited and we technically hadn't even arrived yet! Once we'd dumped our bags we caught a subway train to the Kings Cross area where we were staying. We had been pre-warned by a ...

Byron Bay - We had booked 3 nights in Byron Bay so that we had a few days to relax and explore the town properly. Byron is where a lot of 'hippies' relocated to many years ago and the town is still a place where people go to 'chill out'. There is an organic supermarket, lots of little independent shops selling various styles of clothes and therapies, and we still saw those same 'hippies' walking about the town albeit older looking ones. We spent our first day aw...

Airlie Beach - Just before we arrived at the bus stop in Airlie Beach we drove down the high street and spotted the place we were booked to stay. It was above a large bar/nightclub and was party central, not exactly what we were looking for. Luckily we'd only given our name and no card details or deposit so we jumped into the minivan of another place to stay that we'd also been looking at. It was family run and we were housed in a self contained cabin with bathro...

The first few destinations of our 8 weeks in Australia! Cairns - We arrived in Cairns pretty tired due to not having slept since getting up in Singapore the previous morning. We'd had a 4 hour flight from Singapore - Darwin, a couple of hours stopover (in the middle of the night) followed by a 3 hour flight to Cairns. So by the time we'd made it to our hostel we were knackered. Unfortunately we weren't able to check in as we were too early so we sat outside wher...

Singapore, country number 4! Some people had told us that Singapore wasn't very good, it was boring, there's nothing to do etc... Well we had an absolute blast to the extent that this blog would be shorter if we listed the things we didn't do! How you can get bored in this city/country is beyond us. We apologise for how long this blog will probably turn out, we'll try to keep it as brief as possible! Day 1 - We got to our hostel around midday and wasted no time...