Monday 8th Feb. Surf school Next stop Byron Bay! We headed off after checking on the water cooler in Kylie, it's needed topping up daily since we started (obviously when I say we topped it up, I mean Jay)- bit worrying. After reading reviews on line saying this was the best place in Australia and possibly the world to learn to surf we decided to book surf school here rather than surfer paradise (just up the cost a bit more). We did a quick recce of the area an...

Saturday 6th February 2016 We had another good sleep in Kylie, starting to feel at home in this camper van and really looking forwards to the things to come. We had breakfast outside on a table joined to the side of the camper whilst looking over a river. We toyed about wanting one at home but then came to the realisation that it wouldn't be the same. We then headed off to make a 2hr drive towards a place called Smokey Cape which has a lighthouse and a really ...

Thursday 4th February 2016 After another lovely nights sleep in Lisa' house, we made the most of our new found luxury, a shower and booked our taxi via Uber to take us to the depot to collect our camper van. The weather was terrible, very England like, grey sky's and raining, not how we imagined starting our road trip. We reached the depot and booked in with the receptionist. We explained what the police officer had said and she agreed to allow me to drive, whi...

Tuesday 2nd Feb 16 Hello Austrialia. We had a lovely flight and an easy transition through customs (which we had heard were super strict), and we were let out into Sydney airport. We were collected by the wonderful Lisa Loveland (work friend who moved over to oz) and she drove us through the city and back to her apartment, where we are to stay for the next few days, I was quizzing her the entire time about how midwifery differs here to the UK, turns out a lot!!...