After our overnight journey on the Greyhound we were feeling pretty good we both managed to sleep and the journey seemed to to quite quickly. We stopped for half hour break around 8am so I grabbed us a bacon and egg sarnie and an orange juice to share which went down a treat! We arrived in sunny Byron Bay around 11am, we got our bags from the coach and headed to a group of mini buses and looked for one with Cape Byron Lodge on which took us to our hostel. The h...

Christmas in Aussie Land was very weird, lovely at Keith and Dorothy's place, nice to feel like part of a family on that day. Christmas Eve Gary and me had parcels from home to open, new pjs to wear, stockings to hang and presents to keep for Christmas morning and evening. We made sure we were tucked up in bed before 12 so Santa would come to us. We had a lovely morning opening our stocking, we didn't have a lot of time as Gary had work at 10am. We opened a cou...

On the Wednesday evening we were travelling back to Sydney from Phillip Island 5th September 2012 I got a lovely message from Michelle (manager) saying 'Jenny you are working tomorrow night, Friday night and on Saturday Gary and you will work the night shift, this will be your last shift. Please come in on Sunday to return your keys and pick up remaining wages'. Hmmm I was not to impressed as I was to work all day Thursday, Friday and Saturday and had 32 hours ...

The next chapter of Sydney is much the same working full-time and spending Saturday mornings and Sundays to do our exploring. Following on from our last blog around mid July, we enjoyed a weekday meal out one Thursday at Sydney's Chinatown was a gorgeous meal of funky duck and salad and ice cream to finish and walk through the bustling area. The next weekend we had a productive Saturday morning before work at the movie shop together at 3pm. We headed into cit...

Can you believe that we've been away nearly 5 months?? Time is certainly flying by quickly for us! So much to do and so little time haha. What have we been up to I hear you asking? With us both working full-time we luckily have managed to always get Sundays off which we have spent sightseeing and enjoying Sydney life and my god have we had some awesome Sundays lately :) We paid a visit to The Rocks market to order some amazing Aboriginal artwork on canvas....