Having gone back to the UK for just over a week, I flew back into Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport 9 days after I flew out. What I have learnt from one of those plane journeys is that when the pilot says "4 hours into the flight, there is a strong possibility we may be experiencing turbulence", what he really means is that in 4 hours into the flight it will feel like that we're on the Pepsi Max at Blackpool. On the plane from Abu Dhabi to Sydney, I fell...

I have heard a fair few travellers say Byron Bay is there best place in Australia. Just to get some perspective on that, what they are saying is: Byron Bay is better than seeing the Sydney harbour, Byron Bay is better than Ayers Rock, Byron Bay is better Fraser Island etc. It must be a place that is good I thought, so I ventured to the place where Captain James Cook named Cape Byron after John Byron (who circumnavigated the world). I stayed in YHA Cape Byron d...

We took a day trip to Nimbin from Byron Bay. We had read that the journey was only going to take around an hour and abit. We went to a pub first which took around an hour, and then the Nimbin felt like an another hour. It was was obvious the pub got a cut of the money the tour company got for taking us there, but it also seemed to me that this pub was in the opposite direction to Nimbin. We also got diverted to go to a waterfall. Some people had thought they woul...

The festive season in Sydney To be honest, I wasn't overly keen on some of the clientele in this hostel in Sydney, as they came across lazy, un-ambitious, and would come in at 6am and stay in bed until midday and then stay in the TV room until 9 at night before going out again. I'm in no position to preach, and nor would I wish to do that, but they were all seemingly getting depressed due to not being able to find work, so sitting around feeling sorry for them...

I visited Newcastle which (don't quote me on it but,) I think is the 6th biggest City in Australia and home of the Newcastle Knights, who had the world famous Andrew Johns play for them (you can quote me on the Newcastle Knights bit). The train took longer than the train from Leeds to London would. You can get a plane from Sydney to Newcastle believe it or not, but we thought the train would suffice, even though we had spent over 5 and half hours of our day on ...