Final stop on this amazing journey was Melbourne - the place where I got stuck in the ash cloud many months previously.I have to say, I was glad not to be arriving by plane this time. Now sometimes you become rather delirious on a 12 hour bus journey and this trip from Sydney to Melbourne was no exception. I got off the bus and instead of doing the "normal" thing and getting a tram to my hostel, I trekked right across to the other side of the city (about 40min wa...

Sydney I arrived in Sydney on Monday and headed to find my friends Chris, Hannah, Jo and Jill. The weather was a bit cooler than elsewhere in Oz so far, but still a good 18 degrees!!We had a good mooch about the city and headed to the Observatory. This was one of those trips round a museum that you suddenly find yourself on, despite not really wanting to be there! We paid about $7 to watch this film about how the moon and Earth are really small and the Sun is ...

I thought I'd just write a brief entry about Noosa. Brief, because not only did it pour down whilst I was there, I also only stopped there one night and slept for 11hours of it! Noosa is a pretty little town, about 2hrs north of Brisbane. It's renowned for being a bit pricey and home to a lot of retired couples/hippies. The town with its little boutique shops and swish restaurants is bordering the Noosa National Park and some beautiful white sandy beaches. I ...

Whitsundays I arrived in Airlie Beach about midnight and had to go and find a bouncer in a bar to let me into the hostel resort and give me a bed for the night! The town was full of drunk people and trying to dodge them whilst carrying over half my body weight on my book was not so fun! This bouncer was the fattest man I've ever seen and really not helpful. He also charged me $25 for the room which is the most I've paid for a room in Aus! Anyway next morning...

Brisbane Baby!! Arrived in Brisbane on Sunday night and got in a minibus with the craziest Turkish taxi driver you could ever meet! He dropped us off at the hostel, which turned out to be the wrong one (a lot my fault) and then we had to sit around there until a crazy German hostel employee could drop us off at the correct hostel. We got a free upgrade from a 8 to 6 bed dorm, which meant slightly better night's sleep ahead :D We then all chow downed at McDona...