Blue Mountains Whilst here in Sydney we thought we would take a trip to the Blue Mountains, and we weren’t disappointed. They are beautiful. We hired a little Hyundai Getz, which was actually quite a cool car, very zippy, and headed west along the highway, a journey which should have taken us about an hour and half but due to a huge traffic jam it took us about 3 hours! We checked in to our not that nice hostel in Katoomba, but hey, it was somewhere to get ...

What can we say about Sydney, except it is a great city! We have been here over two weeks – the longest we have stayed anywhere, and we are sure we could stay longer! We have settled in like we were meant to live here. We spent one week in our own studio apartment in Cremorne, North of the City which was cool and then we moved in with Craig and Ruth, some friends we met in Vietnam. How weird is this, when we got to Cremorne we contacted Ruth to let her know...