Time to drive in the city! Had to wait a good half hour first as the car door wouldnt open, well, it did, but it just locked shut straight away! Great. After a few cross words and not being able to open the door we tried the boot and realised that the latch had jammed. Not to worry, we soon fixed it, but have to make sure that the latch is always down when we open and lock the car. Before long we were off and out into the huge city of Sydney. It went well a...

This morning we set off on the underground to city central where we needed to go to the RTA office and register ourselves as the new owner of our car, Frank - we arrived at 1pm and the place had shut at 12! We then took the train back to the opera house to see it in the daytime - still just as impressive and this time we got close enough to go inside and there probably isnt many people that can say 'we went to the loo in the Sydney Opera House'. Next to the ope...

First on the list today was to look for our own transport. We've already spoke about this with other travellers and come to the conclusion that we need a station wagon and the travellers car markets are the best places to get good deals. The Sydney car market is just round the corner from our hostel and located on an old underground car park. There was about 10 cars and vans on the market all with various prices and conditions. Some travellers can be stuck he...

At 5.25am we got up and set off to Singapore Airport. Wow! What an airport. Everything was so nice, clean and modern! It even has a swimming pool! The luxury continued for our Qantas 7 hour flight to Australia, which Claire keeps on repeating in the worst Australian accent ever. We watched films, had extra leg room seats and unlimited drinks. Talk about time flying...we soon landed and after Dave had explained to Claire why we haven't 'fallen off the pla...

Again, still not wanting to spend much money in what we believe is th most expensive city in the world! We did loads of laundry and got ourselves ready for Oz! We can't believe that this stage of the trip is over all ready, neither of us want to go at all but we had originally only planned aabout 3 months in Asia so we are already 2 months behind schedule! We spent hours searching for somewhere to stay in Sydney that was inexpensive, eventually settled on a do...