So we are on the road again……..feels weird that we won't be sleeping in our own bed again or hanging out with the guys in the apartment but we have an action packed 3 months ahead so we'd better be getting on with it! I had been loaned a car (VW Golf Wagon) after leaving work which mean we could drive down to Melbourne at our own pace which was great - we didn't fancy any more trips on that damn Greyhound Bus!! We were on a tight schedule that first morning ...

Ok folks - we'll try and keep this as brief and compact as possible but we have 6 ½ months worth of info to get through so pour yourselves a cuppa and settle into your favourite chair before starting this one!! We arrived into Sydney on 20th December 2010 - we couldn't have been happier to see the Harbour Bridge after our 13 hour bus journey from Byron Bay! Checked into the hostel and that first afternoon was spent down at Circular Quay to get the snaps of the ...

So it was off to Newcastle for me for the Easter long weekend! Laura was back home surprising everyone on her top secret mission to meet our new niece Erin - congrats again to Tory and David, she is beautiful - I can't wait to meet her for real at Christmas. Brian and Caoimhe were kind enough to take pity on me and rather than leaving me like Macauley Culkin in Sydney asked me to tag along with them and Brian's brother Sean for a weekend road trip to Newcastle -...

It was a second early start in a row as the alarm went off at 5:40am to get us out of bed for the early morning Greyhound Bus to Byron Bay.We didn't know a whole lot about Byron Bay ahead of going down there except that it was a pretty relaxed surfing town so it sounded rather good! Alannagh and Robert were again kind enough to drop us to the Bus Station even though it was 6:30 on a Saturday morning!!!We said goodbye to them and hopped on the bus for our 5 hou...