Im currently in Alice Springs, and loving it. Its nice and peaceful here, a small town really in the middle of nowhere. The weather has been awesome, sun all day every day for the last 10 days!I managed to find a job too after 3 days of looking, working in a restaurant called Sporties along the main high street. I'm only doing between 3-7 hours a day but its pretty cool there. Managed to spill a drink over someone a few nights ago, was very embarrassing! I am pla...

Hey everyone, its been another few weeks since my last blog post. The last few weeks have seen me work to earn some more money to travel with.I have been working as a door to door salesman for an electrical retailer company called Integral Energy. Door to door sales has to be the most toughest job ever. Basically we just give electricity to customers 7% cheaper. But most people just arent interested, even though I try and save them money. The first two weeks at t...

Hey everyone! It's been a good few weeks since I got here to OZ, and i can tell you that the humidity and heat here is intense! I flew into syndey and spent a couple of weeks there. My hostel was pretty cool, and had lots going on. My first day I went to Coogee Beach, which is a 10 minute bus trip from the city center, we had a BBQ and a kick about before going into the sea jumping through the huge waves. The heat on that day was intense, I kept slopping on the...

Saturday saw me leave Stewart Island and travel with the Stray bus crew to Dunedin. Our bus stopped off at Catlins Wilderness, where if you go down to the rocky beach you will see a petrified forest. Whats that you ask? 180 million years ago lava and ash mixed with flood water and completely demolished this forest. The trees didnt decompose in the ash filled water, and so became fossilized. The remains are all solid rock, but look like normal wood that had been f...

Sunday saw us leave Makarora, with a bit of a hangover but all in high spirits after a really enjoyable night. Next stop...Queenstown...the adventure/adrenaline capital of the world! We stopped off at Wanaka where some people did sky dives and others went to look round the town, but I and a few others took the opportunity to go to Puzzleworld. Now to me Puzzleworld = Good fun...come on its in the name! So anyway we spent about an hour or so enjoying the puzzles: ...