Greetings everyone and Happy Australia day - well yesterday anyway. We are now in Sydney Domestic airport waiting for our flight to Tasmania, should be called shortly so I guess we should rush this! We spent our first Australia day in Sydney which was pretty cool, there were just thousands of people everywhere! We made our way into the city from our oh so lovely hostel on Bondi Beach in the morning and did a little bit of shopping for souvenirs, which I mig...

Hello again everyone, a very warm welcome from the other side of the world to 2007!! We witnessed probably the most spectacular firework display of the new year celebrations as Sydney not only celebrated 2006 but also the 75th anniversary of the harbour bridge. Prior to our new years eve celebrations we did actually do a couple of outings to the Blue Mountains and a night out with some of our friends from Fraser Island. The blue mountains were pretty spectacul...

Happy new year everyone! Premature yes, but at least we said it before the event this time!! Well, as you have probably guessed we are in Sydney at the min staying with Rach and Paddy. Where we have spent Christmas eve, Christmas day and boxing day.We arrived in Sydney on the 23rd and once again hit the rain, disappointing and made even worse by the fact that we had travelled for 13hours by Greyhound bus - which by the way it is practically impossible to sleep on...