We arrived in Sydney at 9am and jumped on the train to kings cross where the hostel, not knowing that king cross was hooker/pimp central. We found the hostel and checked into the sweatiest room ever, but seeing as Sydney was starting to get busy for Xmas and New Year we booked and payed for the whole week so we couldn't do a runner. First impressions weren't good, the kitchen looked a bit dodgy and the place is 99% Germans and French. We took a walk around the...

Back in Melbourne and we headed off to the DFO shopping centre as Brid claimed she didn't have enough clothes with her, even though her bag was ready to explode at the seems. She somehow managed to fit in a couple of things so that kept her shopping fix happy for a couple of days. One of Deirdre friends who works in Melbourne Library offered to give us a tour as they had some exhibitions on at that time, we drove the rental car back into the town centre and made ...

We landed in Adelaide and picked up our hire car from the airport, turned out to be an alright corolla which seemed brand new. We drove into the city centre and found our hostel, seemed ok but the kitchen was one of the dirtiest we've seen so we gave it a wide berth and went out for food. We wandered around the city for a while before headed back to the hostel and into the bar for some booze, had a pretty sweaty sleep as there was no air con in the room. Next...

We landed in Melbourne around 4pm and were met by Brid's relative Deirdre who luckily Brid recognised. We headed back to their house in Ascot Vale in Melbourne. We were pretty glad to finally be back in a house after living in hostel for the last 6 months, we finally had a decent bed to sleep in as well. We just stayed up for a while chatting to their other house guest Mathew whose their daughters boyfriends brother who is working down in Melbourne for a couple o...

We got up early to wash our clothes but the annoying woman at the campsite had locked the laundry door and wouldn't let us use it. We had stayed the night in Franz Josef as there was allot more to do there than fox glacier. We drove up to the Franz Josef glacier but we couldn't be bothered going onto it as we were both still knackered from the day before. We then left for Hokitiki, not the most exciting place in the world but we had a couple of days left to waste...