So it's true, time really does fly when you're having fun! After leaving Jo and Elliot in Brisbane I got a bus to Noosa, where I had an early night as I was up early to go to Australia zoo. This was Steve Irwin's zoo and is still run by his wife Terri and kids Bindi and Robert. After being in Australia for over a month I finally got to see kangaroos and koalas! There was also a show the Irwin's put on with crocodiles which was pretty awesome too. Was definit...

As our bus pulled into Surfers paradise, the rain started pouring down. The guy from the hostel that collected us said this was the first time it had done this since he moved there about 5 months ago. Just our luck! Once at the hostel we met our new roommates and sat by the pool they had once it had stopped raining. Unfortunately I seemed to get a tummy bug so had to take myself to bed early, and Jo and Claire (who we had met in Sydney) headed out for some coff...

After our adventure in Melbourne and experiencing home comforts for a few days, it was back to Sydney and the backpacker ways again. We dropped off our stuff in our new dorm and headed out in search of some food. We were pretty much in Chinatown so we decided that would be the best way forward and got some noodles. We got back to the hostel via the bottle-o for cheap wine, and planned on a night out. Back at the dorm we invented a card game 'snap alex parks' (...

The flight to Melbourne went nice and fast and Jo's cousin Julie picked us up from the airport just as it started raining. It's safe to say it was a lot colder in Melbourne then in Sydney! We stayed with Lee and Julie, Jo's cousins, who kindly put us up for four nights… we even had our own rooms! Total traveller luxury. We arrived and after some tea and chats went for a walk to a nearby Indian restaurant which Lee kindly treated us too. A lot of the restaura...

G'Day! So as you all probably realise I'm now in Australia! My flight was an overnight one and I was lucky enough to get two seats on the plane so managed to snooze a bit. I landed at the ungodly time of 6:30am, and got myself through immigration and customs (no nothing to declare being filmed sadly) and found ma and Ali in the arrivals hall. We drove back to Ali's, who lives in a suburb to the west of Sydney and I got showered and put my shorts on, to which ...