Well, a few days ago i spent half an hour typing up a new blog, telling you all what chey and I had been up to (snorkelling with reef sharks at Sea World, going to the beach and getting hammered by the waves, a theme park or 2, etc etc) and as I hit save the computer crashed and I lost it all. Never mind, I am now in a hotel next to Sydney Airport, waiting for my flight to Honolulu tonight and only have 10 mins of credit left so this is going to be short. Chr...

Thanks for all the messages since my last input, things are a lot better now, my Bruce Forsythe impression (apparently not that bad but to me felt enormous) has subsided, I can talk and eat properly now, which is great! On Friday, I met up with Fizz and we headed over to Manly on the ferry. It's a small island (i think) popular with sydneysiders who go over there for a break, or retire over there. It's a nice place, was quite busy when we went over, I think it...

Well well well, what a week it's been! To say up and down is a slight understatement, but things are picking up now, and i'll tell you all about it in just a second. So I got to sydney on saturday morning, wow, it's a big place, but i loved it immediately, it's like a dream. I guess everytime I envisioned Australia, the Opera House and Harbour Bridge were part of that vision, so to see them in front of me, well, it was a special moment I guess. I met up with a ...

Hey everyone! I've just arrived in Sydney after a 13 hour bus trip, that wasn't too bad- although had raging tooth ache for a few hours that was just horrible (I'm beginning to think real teeth are over-rated with the trouble i've had since I got here!) But i'm so excited to be here! I met up with a girl who I met in Airlie Beach, Claire from Portsmouth and we're staying at the same hostel. As far as hostels go this one seems very big but very nice. Good bunk...