So onto Sydney we headed (I know I'm a month behind but I'm trying my best!!!!) After checking in at Wake UP! (our hostel ) we had a very tasty full english brekkie and then headed out for a wander around the streets of Sydney. We walked from the hostel down George Street to Darling Harbour. On our way we passed through the Paddy's market and the Chinese Gardens. We saw the two most famous landmarks in Sydney - the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge which I tho...

We had a quick stop in Newcastle to see my friend Kate and also for Clare to take pictures of all the road signs. If you don't know, Clare is from Newcastle in England so seeing signs for places she knokws at home got her very excited!!!! We got an overnight bus down from Byron Bay and arrived in Newcastle at 7.30am. I had not managed to get much sleep at all on the bus so it was going to be a test as to whether I could stay awake all day. We were staying in the...

It was another early morning bus from Hervey Bay down to Brisbane. It was our first real city of Australia (they call Cairns a city but really it's no bigger than Cheadle Hulme). We were staying in a hostel called Bunk. It had a really buzzing bar we didn't go to ourselves but from the volume of the music and the people screaming we certainly didn't get much sleep anyway! After a not-so-good nights sleep, we were up early on the Monday morning for a pilgrimage....

So I know it's been a while since I last updated my blog but I've been really busy so this is going to be a long one! Last time I wrote I was on my way to Magnetic Island in northern Queensland. I absolutely loved it there. So much so that we extended our stay by a night (unfortunately we didn't have enough free days to extend it by any more). We stayed at this really cool hostel on the beach called Base Backpackers. It had a great view of Townsville and out to ...

So we arrived in Cairns on 20th Feb after a pretty horrible flight which also stopped at Darwin along the way. There was actually no leg room whatsoever because we couldn't fit our bags in the overhead lockers so had to put them under the seat infront. I have never felt so cramped in my life. My legs were aching so much because I could hardly move them for the first 4 hours of the flight. Thankfully after our stop at Darwin there was room in the overhead lockers ...