Wednesday 11th March 2009 - So I'm in Melbourne now. Luckliy got out of Cairns just in time as cyclone Hamish decided to work up into category 4 and people had to be evacuated. I got to Melbourne airport at midnight, and I had decided not to book a hostel that night as I thought it would not be worth it for the amount of time I would be in the room, and I thought Id save some pennies (must be the Jewish streak in me coming out there, ha ha). Why oh why do airport...

Monday 12th January - well we had the 13 hour Greyhound overnight bus journey to Byron Bay. It wasn't toooo bad, but did not sleep at all. Had a few stops, then the sun started rising and I just stared out the window wide awake. Got there and checked into the hostel which was quite quirky, and we wandered around town to see where everything was. It was me, Vicky and Damian, and we had a German girl called Vanessa in our room who was lovely, so we all went out for...

Saturday 20th December - I'm in Sydney!!!!! Had a 3 hour flight from Auckland and landed at 8pm. I would have tried to look out the window but I had a mahoosive guy sat next to me who decided that for the entire 3 hours he would sit with his head blocking the entire window space (his head was the size of half the plane) and therefore blocking my view. I think it was his first flight as he was clucking with delight the whole time. Bless. Anyway, managed to get to ...

Tuesday 25th November 2008 Me and Vicky caught a flight from Dunedin today to Auckland. It was sad saying goodbye to Shelley and Will, but we will meet up with them again in Sydney so thats cool. We flew to Auckland then got the bus up to Whangerei where Vicky's mate James picked us up, and we went to Iman's house for the dinner and a few drinks. Its going to be really weird not being on the Stray bus anymore, its such a routine and seeing the same people every ...

Friday - headed up to Abel Tasman today, and we stopped off to do some wine tasting at Hunters vineyard in the Marlborough region, and have 7 samples of wine. I am really not taken by New Zealand wine, have found it really hard to find nice wines over here, and considering I'm a bit of a wino (as most of you know), its sadky lacking in quality. Thats not just beacuse they are the cheap house wines that the hostel bar offers (they really do taste like cats piss), ...