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...

Cant believe ive been away from dundee for a week now, the time has flown in. After spending 3 lazy days in Colleroy, we all headed to manly to find a hostel. There wasnt alot of rooms left so we all got split up, luckily me and jill got to stay together but as soon as we walked in the room, we just walked straight back out there. it was an 8 bedded dorm full of french and german girls who had been living there for about 6 weeks so the place was covered in all t...

hey well we finally arrived in sydney after a long flight. Didnt seem to be long in dubai, managed to get a short sleep there and me and jill couldnt belive the price of fags - nine pound for 200, what a bargain, even though i dont smoke!! just waiting for our room to be ready at sydney beach house hostel. we're shattered and smell a bit so wanting to get our heads down, have a shower and head to the beach!! everyone is so tanned compared to us