Hello, dont know if i will have much to write in this blog!! Was so glad to leave Newcastle, it was ok but it seemed like a ghost town with not much to do! think i was feelin sorry for myself as i had a sore foot and had a throat infection so im sure i was quite moody!!! Next stop was Coffs Harbour, which was about a 8 hour train journey up the coast. We were stayin in a place called Plantation hotel in a 6 bedded dorm but we had the room to ourselves which wa...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!! THATS US FINALLY LEFT SYDNEY AND MOVED UP THE COAST TO A PLACE CALLED NEWCASTLE WHICH IS ABOUT 90 MINS UP THE COAST, OUR PLAN BEING TO WORK OUR WAY UP TO BRISBANE. WHAT A DIFFERENCE IN THE WEATHER, SO MUCH WARMER AND STAYS WARMER AT NIGHT LONGER. WAS GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF THE PREVIOUS HOSTEL IN GLEBE, IT WAS OK BUT FACILITIES WERE A BIT RUBBISH AND THE GERMANS WE SHARED A ROOM WITH WERE ALL ABIT RUDE AND TOOK YOUR STUFF WITHOUT ASKI...

HELLO - MERRY XMAS!!! Cant believe how fast this week has gone by - we have all been typical tourists and trying to pack everything into a week! On the tues after arriving in sydney, me and Jill went to sydney aquarium, it was great, we were like big kids again! Was cool to see all the sharks and dungongs etc, got to feed some of the barrier reef fish from a glass bottom boat and even saw a few sharks and stingrays swim by! We were staying at the Westend backpac...

Apoligies for not updating my blog sooner - spent last week at Narrabean campsite and didnt do very much! My memory isnt very good either, always forget what we've done! Should have mentioned in my last blog that we went to Palm beach for the day where Home and Away is filmed. No filming going on that day and the place was so quiet. In the end it was far too windy to lie on the beach. Was nice to see though! So i eventually recovered from my labrynthitis, its no...

So Ive managed to last 2 weeks and learnt some important things along the way - Always do the ozzie flip before you go to the loo (you never know whats under the toilet seat, Jill found a cricket there once). Its perfectly acceptable to wear the same clothes 4 days in a row....including knickers, no one really cares - we all smell. The weather in oz is a bit liek scotland....especially this week when the rain chucked it down for 2 days and our tent got flooded an...