We arrived on the overnight train from coffs harbour which is a long long way only about 5cm on the map but was about 12 hours long. We tried to get some sleep but we fail mostly but had a good breakie on the train. We tried to check in to the YHA (which was more like a hotel with 7 floors, swimming pool, spa , cinema room and resturant) but unfortunaltly we were not able to. Into long term storage our luggage went and off we were to manly beach. It was a great d...

On saturday the 17/5/08 we arrived in Coffs Harbour at about 4pm after a train journey from Port Maquire (Jem will tell the hilarious story of me forgeting my bag!!!) where we were greated by my cousin Teresa and her family who very generously put us up for a few nights while we were staying and in return we brought her some marmite (Vegimite just isn't the same). She treated us to a BBQ on our first night and chatted the night away reminsing and catching up as ...

Today on the 16th we did a wurlwind tour of Port Macquarie. We only had one day and wanted to fit everything in. arrived the night before by train/bus and settled in to our YHA which was great as we had our own apartment with TV (a luxury do far) and spent the night laughing at Oz adverts for Viagra with men playing the piano without their hands and femine hygene products feturing a Beaver washing itself!! So we got up early and walked to the Koala Hospital and ...

We arrived at katoomba (the heart of the blue mountains) at midday after getting a local train from sydney as its counted as a suburb (even though its 100km (60miles) away!!) and we first discovered that its very hilly (i know 'mountain' should of given me a clue) and we got to the YHA after a long walk up a hill with our bags but we got booked in sraight away which was great (they've all been good in this regard) and so we crashed for a couple of hours and then ...

We arrived in Sydney early in the morning after the overnight train from Melbourne and it was hot and sunny which was great (although Jem got sunburnt) and I got me shorts out. After a quick stop at the hostel where we were staying (which was great as they let us check in at 10am) we hopped on the next bus and was off exploring. the first stop was the famous fish market where we looked at all the weired local fish and crabs (blue crabs!) and then off to the sydne...