We're now in Sydney but leaving tomorrow. Will have to write more shortly about our Christmas and New Year. Hope everyone has had a great holiday period. Having left Sydney we can now look back and have another moan. It rained practically all the time we were there! Australian weather sucks. We were lucky on New Year's Eve with some good sunshine. We got up early and went down to the park with the intention of getting a good spot to sit and watch the famo...

G'day. Byron Bay review. We arrived on the 23rd for Christmas on the beach. Hmmm. Australian weather had other ideas. Not much sun to be honest and sunny days did seem to be accompanied by very strong winds making sitting on the beach very unpleasant being blasted with sand. The surfers seemed to like it. We had booked some accomodation in a hostel very close to the beach and had to take a dorm as it's very busy at this time of year. All did not go well...