We arrived back in Sydney on Monday the 26th of May having spent all our saved money in the Blue mountains and pledged that we would knuckle down and work solidly for the next four weeks. We had set ourselves a time limit of no more than two months in Sydney as we have met countless travellers who have spent eight or nine months here then spent the remainder couple of months racing around trying to fit the rest of Oz in. Lets face it Australia is a bloody big pla...

Tuesday 20th May. We awoke bright and early, said a prayer and performed a non-rain dance as today was the day that we were heading for the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains are renowned for their unpredictable flippant weather and over the last couple of days (according to the news) the temperatures at night were dropping to nearly freezing. As we headed out through the masses of mini roundabouts and traffic lights of Sydney's Northern Beaches and hit the motor...

We left behind Canberra, and the lovely hospitality of Beth and Shaun, at the crack of dawn on Monday the 21st of April. We had an appointment with Exact, a work agency based in Manly on the Northern beaches of Sydney. We drove the four hours and with no map and only vague directions and stumbled right upon the agency with fifteen minutes to spare, better born lucky than rich. We signed up, watched a ridiculous health and safety video then called Leane, a friend ...

Thanks for remembering Dans birthday. At first he thought maybe he was forgotten but it turned out that all his birthday greetings had been sent to my email address. Which was sensible as Dan doesn't very often access his hotmail account. He had a good birthday. I bought him a cake and it had candles and everything. I thought I might surprise him with it in the evening but he suggested going out for a chinese and we filled ourselves up and so the cake didn't come...