Byron Bay: Wednesday 5th January - Sunday 9th January We arrived in Byron Bay late at night just as the monsoons had arrived. Due to the weather Aquarius backpackers picked us up so we didn't have to traipse through the wet streets. On arrival at the hostel the receptionist said she didn't have a booking for us - s***! We were still with the girls at this point and knew that it was going to be almost impossible to find a bed for all of us. Looking into the l...

Coffs Harbour: Sunday 2nd January - Wednesday 5th January We were pretty sad to leave Sydney after such an awesome couple of weeks with great people so wherever we moved onto had a tough act to follow. We arrived in Coffs early on the Monday morning with Sophie, Aimee and Lisa and had a little tour in the Aussitel hostel bus whilst half asleep. We couldn't check in so all napped on the sofas in the lounge area whilst waiting. A lazy day was definitely called f...

Sydney Monday 20th December We arrived in Sydney pretty late but came in to land during an amazing sunset. I've never seen such an amazing colour in the sky whilst above the clouds! We came through arrivals and Zara was there waiting for us which was really cool. It was so nice to get somewhere and not have to worry about finding our way to the hostel in a city we didn't know. A short cab ride to Kangaroo Bakpak and we started meeting what would be our fa...

Hong Kong Thursday 16th December - Monday 20th December We arrived in Hong Kong, our third country in a week, to an entirely new culture and an entirely new climate. All eyes were on us as we queued for passport control but for once it had nothing to do with the fact that we were foreigners with huge backpacks. We were the only idiots in the airport wearing flip-flops and shorts amongst a crowd of people clearly dressed for weather at least 20 degrees colder...

Singapore - Saturday 11th December - Thursday 16th December After a pretty straightforward journey south and through the Malaysia-Singapore border we departed our coach on Singapore's famous Beach Road and made our way to our new home for the next 4 days - a plush apartment on 19th floor of the Park Royal hotel courtesy of a legendary ex colleague of mine. We got some understandably strange looks from the receptionist when we arrived, looking every bit the fil...