Dorms are great for meeting people that's for certain! However if you ever need sleep, you're slightly screwed. That's why I have moved into a house. Yes it is true I have a house in the Surrey hills! How exciting is that? It was very much required after also getting a job. And again yes I have followed my father's footsteps and am working in a bank! NAB the National Bank of Australia. It's just a temping job where I do administration work, and that's what I need...

There is nothing like meeting up with old friends. This time around I wouldn't say old but new and great friends. Yes the Matt and Clare Show hit town two weeks back. Matt and Clare are a couple that we travelled with in China. Really great guys from the UK (see the China Tour journal). Visiting Sydney for something like 11 days. Was really excited to see them, its great to have visitors! They look as happy as ever and for the time they were here, I never...

So as Matt and Clare were exploring the highlights of Sydney, yours truly was stuck at work! Totally unfair I hear you all scream... well you would be completely right. However Clare text me on Wednesday letting me know that they were hiring a car and going to The Blue Mountains. Me, being as prepared as I was for this whole world trip had no idea what or where the Blue Mountains were. "Australia - that's not for a while... I'll just look it up when I get ther...

So you have my first few days that were really cool, Claudia and Liza flew to Melbourne to say goodbye and I was set to find some more people to hang out with. However I was feeling very very unmotivated and the hangover from Hell kept me in bed until 7pm the next day. When a lady entered the room, wet hair and everything. Didn't realise it then but it was about to start the 3 best days in Sydney I have had. Her name is Steph and she's an English girl, we j...

My First Day So I get off the plane and leave my stuff in my dorm room and walk the 10 minutes down the road to the travellers conact point...ten minutes my arse...its at least 20 away. Anyhow back to the point! I get my bank account sorted and looking around for houses on the board I bump into the girl. We start chatting and shes really cool, her name is Tuire but I just could be pronouning that the whole time and shes from Finland...so I name her Fin! We ...