We left Byron with all of our group, but left most of them in quite possibly the most disgusting place I've seen in Australia: Surfer's Paradise. As soon as we neared it I was SO glad Soozie and I had decided to head straight for Brisbane. I don't understand how people can possibly like the place, it's just a beach with a load of huge buildings behind it. If you're going to sit on the beach surely you want something nicer going on around you!? So we arrived in B...

Rahhh! I wish I could get this thing up to date. Note to self: where blogs are concerned make a decision at the beginning and stick to it! So, we left Sydney on 13th October and our home from home, the Oz Experience bus, took us to a little spot they call Surf Camp. I'm not sure what I was expecting of this place, but for some reason wood chip heaven and what I can only describe as tin huts for sleeping in were not it! This was clearly ultra laid back surfer dud...

Sunny Sydney! Or not. Imagine our disappointment when on our first day in Sydney (which we had expecting to be HOT) it rained pretty much ALL DAY. It felt like being back home! After a drenching by the stupid rain, which took us by suprise, we were both feeling pretty sorry for ourselves so spent most of the afternoon holed up in the hostel on the internet. By evening time we were in danger of sinking into depression (or just falling asleep in the TV area) so we ...

The Great Ocean Road. Truly amazing. It's a shame that a lot of people doing the east coast skip Victoria, because this was definitely one of the highlights of the trip so far. Another early start (so much for not getting up early for 15 weeks!); we were picked up at 7am by our awesome tour guide. It was a really lovely small group, only 7 of us, and it was so nice not to have specific timings for everything. Our first stop was Bell's Beach, where we got rained...

A new country!!! Well...Australia started badly. We landed at about 11pm on 1st October - this was after 2 hours in Queenstown airport, 2 hours on a plane, 10 hours in Auckland airport and another 4 hours on a plane. We were tired and I was feeling a bit grumpy; getting to the hostel and sleeping was all I really wanted to do. So when customs refused to let my wood carvings from New Zealand into the country I was very unimpressed! Sooz and I went through differe...