KATIE Thursday 13th November Well, we made it to the cricket, and I have to say I actually quite enjoyed it. Not sure how much of that was to do with the fact that it was glorious sunshine, very relaxed and we were sipping on cold beers and how much was the cricket, but then let's not worry about technicalities!! Slightly more of a strenuous walk back as we thoughts we'd take a short cut back and it turned out to be a very scenic and long winded short cut. Oh w...

JAMES Another blog update about another fantastic day in Sydney yesterday (the man in the internet cafe over the road from the hotel is doing very nicely out of us at the moment, as we've got so much to write about!). We did the Bridgeclimb yesterday morning, and it was brilliant! With the exception of Peru, it is probably the best thing we have done on the trip so far. I cannot believe anyone would come to Sydney and not do it, it's something you can't really ...

KATIE Well, if you'd told me 2 years ago that on my second anniversary I'd be in Sydney and on a 3 month holiday I'm not sure I would have believed you, but here we are!! Thankfully feeling ok for the first time in about 7 days today so that was really nice for a change! Today we hot footed it over to Circular Key where we caught the Bondi Explorer bus and had a scenic tour to Bronte Beach (with a really good driver and, for once, useful commentary!) where we go...

JAMES After stupid amounts of time on planes and at airports, and after crossing more time zones than is healthy, we have finally made it to Sydney! The flight over from Hong Kong was the first long flight we have done this trip which was subject to neither turbulence nor annoying co-passengers and, having watched all the decent films available on previous flights, we actually managed to get a few hours sleep! I can't say we arrived in Sydney fresh and raring to...