Wednesday morning and it was time for me, Katie and Lynn to check out and go to collect our car which was to be like our home for at least the next three days. We left all of our bags with the boys and went off to find the garage, when we got their we picked up our little silver 3 door Hyundai Getz, a manual car this time. We drove back through the ridiculous Sydney traffic and picked up the boys from the hostel and arranged to meet the Irsh in Melbourne. After...

After a short bus journey but on a full to the brim little bus, we were pleased to arrive at Spot X and Surf Camp, it was here where we were to all have our free surf lesson! After checking in and having a tour of the place, we got shown to our little four bed portakabins and had a nice buffet lunch. Then we were given our surf theory lesson and put in wetsuits and given boards to head down to the beach. The boards are soooo much heavier than i expected and it...

So Disco picked us up from Surfers Paradise and i had an awful sense of Deja-vu, getting on the same bus, with the same driver and ironically waring the same clothes as i was the day that i fainted and hurt my ankle..........thankfully this time there were no incidents and we all arrived at Byron Bay safely with no new injuries!On first arriving at Byron and our accommodation which was Holiday Village, i was not impressed. I think i put it 'this is where my prin...

The next day Alan and Mike were heading off to Australia Zoo so we said goodbye to them and arranged to meet them the following day in Brisbane. Myself, Katie and Gillian all checked out and caught the shuttle bus at 10am to the transit centre where we picked up the Oz bus at 10.30am being driven by Louie.Another relatively short journey of three hours, with a lunch stop in the middle, and we arrived in Brisbane. It was very strange to be driving through a city a...