After seeing some leaflets and meeting a couple from Nottingham who had driven a car they'd bought in Cairns down the coast, we made enquiries yesterday about renting a camper van - decided that 5 weeks wasn't long enough to buy drive and sell a car. Went to a travel shop near our hostel and the woman said we had no chance of getting one before the Easter weekend. We said we'd book for the following week but ended up getting a last minute cancellation - onl...

Kings Cross (the area where we're staying) is absolutely fine during the day! Cafes, shops and lots of people around, you don't even notice the strip clubs... In the daylight I began to form a better impression of Sydney. I didn't expect t to be hilly. And it is. From the Kings Cross area you walk down a steep hill then up another until you get to Hyde Park, which is ever so slightly smaller then its namesake. It may seem a starnge thing to comment on,...

We woke up an hour before our flight was due to leave. Bearing in mind they ask you to be at the airport 2-3 hours before we were pretty stressed. However, we got there and had absolutely no waiting time, just sailed through check-in, security etc and on to the plane. This doesn't mean I would recommend it or that I will ever do it again...... Hangover kicked in on the plane and made the journey pretty horrid. But we deserved it. Caught a free ride to ...