G'day! I had my first perfect day last friday, going to Taronga Zoo in Sydney from the morning till late afternoon, having a wonderful woman sort out my bank card (I can now afford fish&chips!), then going to Wollongong (south-west of Sydney), where I am since then staying in an absolutely great hostel! Got drunk that day and yesterday and we had a huge bbq on saturday where all the people of the hostel joined, it was just awesome! There are really nice engl...

Hi family (and myself, looking at this in 10-15 years), I finally found some time to write a bit about the first week. Having to organise a lot of things, I basically spent friday and saturday doing so while I explored Sydney for the first time. It is amazing, so much bigger and probably so much more interesting than anywhere else I've been before. What I noticed so far: -Asian people are everywhere -Backpackers have beards (trying to follow that trend, no ...