Hi Everyone!! I am SO excited to be here, it's been a fabulous (and expensive) day! I arrived here absolutely fine yesterday, having missed history in the making with Obama's inaugoration- I was sat outside Starbucks and you wouldn't have known it was going on. This morning I got up and couldn't decide what to do. So i thought the best thing would be to just wander and get my bearings. There is so much to see here! After a starbucks I found the perfect solutio...

Greetings from Hawaii! Ok, so the picture at the top isn't actually anywhere near where i am, nor am i in American Samoa but i couldn't work out how to change it and just got annoyed. so I'm in my second destination in Hawaii. Last Sunday I flew from Sydney to Honolulu and then another flight onto Maui. My hotel was ok, a bit 'weathered' and the staff weren't that friendly, but it did the job, the ocean was on my doorstep and the weather was lovely, even though...

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...

Hey everyone! This is just a quick blog to say I am safely at the West's on the very very hot Gold Coast, about half an hour from the city centre. Seeing Chey again was great, her family are fab, mad but fab and i have had the most relaxing week, with prob more beer than I have consumed in the last 3 months! (that's not because I'm going out and getting drunk every night, purely because it's just what you do in the afternoon- especially since the cricket is on-...

Well, its my last night in Melbourne, I've been here for nearly 3 weeks and i've had an amazing time. It has been my favourite place I've visited. People say you either love Melbourne and hate Sydney, or love Sydney and hate Melbourne. Sydney was great, I enjoyed it, it's big and fun and there is so much going on, but there is more- more character, culture, individuality in Melbourne, you just have to find it (although, the too-cool-for-school crowd who try so ha...