The bus arrived in Sydney at about 9.30am, where Maggie (my mum's friend who moved to Sydney with her family 8 years ago, aka my friend Heather's mum) was waiting to meet us.Unfortunately her car battery had just died, but we didn't have to wait long to have it sorted out and went back to their lovely house in Balmain where we unpacked our things and collapsed on the sofa with a nice cup of tea! Later on Maggie took us for a delicious Vietnamese lunch down the ro...

We arrived at Byron Bay quite late, so just nipped to the shops to get some milk (Nat and i couldn't actually survive without it) and then relaxed at the YHA hostel.The next morning we were up fairly early to make the most of our day there, and wandered around the shops before making our way across the lovely beach to the walking track that led up to the lighthouse. It was a really steep track, and it was possibly the hottest day we'd had in Australia! But even b...