Today was Blue Mountains day. It started a little late since I forgot to change my clock an hour forwards the other day so I woke up with 7 minutes to get ready for our 8.20am pick up! We got on the bus to meet the livliest and most enthusiastic 80 odd year old bus driver ever, called Dave. Although we had booked this trip through STA Travel on George Street the other day, it wasn't a particularly backpackery group but we had fun with the oldies anyway. After p...

Today we gladly left the Elephant hostel. We packed up leaving at what we thought was 10am but was actually 11 since the clocks had changed overnight. We got a taxi to Wake Up! Hostel which is by Central Station at the bottom of George Street. It is like heaven compared to the old place! Its clean, modern, light and spacious! :) We went up to our rooms to dump some stuff after having breakfast at the cafe next door then had a 2 hour computer session since we hav...

Today was a very long, but very long awaited for day! We got up at about 10am and immediately started getting ready for the Randwick Horse Races! We stressed slightly having to get ready and choose between outfits in the dingy room but all was well in the end and we hopped in a taxi at about midday to take us along. It was so much fun! We bet each way on every race and I made $17 dollars back (which wasn't all bad compared to Georgie's $0!) We met up with Pat a...

We were dropped off the night bus from our final Greyhound ride at about half 9 thismorning, very tired. Sydney was looking good though and the weather was hot. As its my favourite city in the world, there was no way I would just sleep all day, and with only 4 days here, I made a pact to just get up and go. We caught a taxi to our hostel with our bags - The Elephant Hostel on St James Young Crescent? This had been a very hard night to book into when we did it in...

I woke up very hungover thismorning to have to check out at 10am. The worst. We packed up and left our philosophical roommates. Thank god Chelsea, Phil and Adam were next door as it meant we could dump our stuff there and then shower later after the surf lesson. Me, G and Chels went to the Aquarius cafe for a cold drink and breakfast before we came back for a sleep on top of our bags in Chelsea's room. The boys were still asleep but we settled in anyway. An engl...