My last day in Australia...... Finished packing my backpack and said my goodbyes. Got the 11.25am train from Katoomba to Central Station then onto the train to the International Airport. Arrived at the airport about 2pm. Checked in. Luckly my packpack weighed only 22kg so no excess weight charges.... My flight left at 5pm. The journey in total to the UK is 23 hours with a short stop in Bangkok. Arrived back in the UK 7am Monday morning.

So its back in Katoomba for my final week . I've had an amazing year, have seen so much and learnt even more. Just now time to pack and repack my bag about 100 times, and to celebrate my 30th Birthday aussie stylie....... See you guys all soon xxxx

Picked up at 8.45am (finally a tour with a lie-in). We headed out to the Barossa Valley. Our first stop for morning tea was at a place called Gumeracha. This is where the Giant Rocking Horse lives... The second stop was the Herbig Family Tree. This tree was actually lived in by Herbig, a German settler that came over in the 1800s, and also his wife and the first 2 of his 16 children lived there!!!! Then it was off to hit the Wineries. First on the agenda was Wo...

Day Two Picked up and our first stop of the day was to Clifford's Honey Farm. Kangaroo Island is the only place in the world where a pure strain of Ligurian bee exists. These bees originated from Italy, they are very quiet and docile bees so easy to work with. we sampled some Honey fizzy drink, which was very nice then the owner explained to us the process he does for the keeping of his bees and the extracting of the honey. Over 10,000 kilograms of honey is prod...

Day One The bus picked me up at 6.20am then it was a 2 hour drive to Cape Jervis to catch the Ferry across to Kangaroo Island. Arrived at about 10am found my bus and guide, Jeff, and met the 3 other people on my tour for the next 2 days. Our first stop was to the Emu Ridge Eucalyptus Oil Distillery. The oil is produced from the islands Narrow-leaf Mallee trees. The make it by putting the leaves into like a huge steamer that extracted the oil from the leaves. It...