Hello all! We have a few minutes just before we go to Bondi Beach for the day (oh the hardship!!) so I thought I would tell you all about our day in the Blue Mountains yesterday. We caught the train from Central Station, after missing two of them and waiting almost 2hrs on wrong platforms - we were misinformed I promise! It was nice to see a bit of the area outside Sydney, we stopped at Katoomba which was very quaint indeed and home to the Three Sister...

Hello Everyone, Well we are into our fourth day of our time in Sydney and so far so good. Yesterday we had a lovely day, we had a picnic in the Botanical Gardens, relaxing with a cheese sandwich and a view of the park and Sydney Harbour (we have decided that we make up a mean picnic- even if we do say so ourselves- we had enough to feed a small army!) The Gardens are lovely, they are really well looked after and they have the oddest mixture of animals- ...

Hey Guys! Here we are in Sydney, and it's lovely. Within 3 hours of arriving we were sat in a bar by the Opera House drinking Australian white wine and taking in the spectacular view. Everywhere we turn it's like we're in a post card, I can't really believe we're here! Our hostel is ok, people everywhere which is going to take some getting used to after our lovely (cheap) hotel rooms all over Vietnam but they seem friendly enough so it's all good. We...