So its now coming to our last week in Sydney and in Australia! We leave for Aukland next friday 28th and so its back to the backpacker life of living in crummy dorms and being woken up at the crack of dawn! Ah well, we can be just as loud when we want to be! Last weekend I went snowboarding in the snowy Valley of Thredbo, which was so much fun. I made some new friends there, used muscles I never knew I had and covered myself in a few nice bruises! I was picked ...

So things seem to be picking up in what we thought was going to be a cold and miserable Sydney as we had to look for work. As it happens though the rain stopped this week (after causing us endless amounts of grief last week with smelly damp coming through the walls of our hostel) and the sun is shining, we both found jobs AND most of all we have moved into a flat. Its costing us the same price as we were paying for smelly damp dorms, over looks Darling Harbor and...

Our first stop in Oz was Campbell Town, New South Wales, to see the 'rellies' they showed us around woolongong before me and mum headed on to Sydney... So Sydneys just like London, only bluer water round the edges, a bigger bridge and a building resemembeling some nicely positioned egg shells (the Opra House). Ok so thats a bit unfair, Sydney is nice. The Bridge is petty as is the Opra House, but when arriving to wind and rain like London and seeing every...