I have fallen in love with Byron Bay!Angus was kind enough to give me a lift in his car all the way to my hostel - the infamous Arts Factory. Byron Bay is the small laid back hippie and surfing capital of Australia and it is great.I was recommended that I stay in the Arts factory by someone I met in Bondi. I am so glad I did, it is a real alternative style hostel with the opportunity to stay in dorms, tents, tepees and even a double decker bus! The atmosphere was...

I took a three and and a half hour bus from Coff's Harbour to Ballina (home of the big prawn - another big thinf to add to my collection) where I was picked up by a lovely bloke called Graeme. Graeme is the owner of the YHA in Lennox Head where I was going to spend the night. Lennox Head is about twenty minutes drive south of Byron Bay and a little out of the way so may people by pass it. I only came accross it when I was reading through my Rough Guide. The thin...

My bus arrived into Coff's Harbour at 5.10am - way too early! I had managed to sleep for the majority which was good but I was still shattered. Sat in the bus shelter, waiting for it to lighten a little I got talking to a girl who turned out to be staying at the same hostel as I was going to, so we walked together. By the end of the enormous trek to the hostel which was all the way over the other end of town I kind of whish she hadn't been saying there. I don't w...

My bus to Coff's Harbour was not until 9pm so after checking out of Bondi and lugging all my stuff to the Central Bus Station in Sydney to leave in storage I caught the ferry to Manly. Manly is a lovely place, unfortunately I had to explore it on rather a wet and miserable day but still had a great time. I wondered around the town for a while and managed to pick up some bargains including a new pair of sunnies to replace my broken pair. I walked all the way alo...

There was sea, there was surf, there was even sand, but when we first arrived there was a definate lack of sun! Monday and Tuesday were horrible, cloudy and we even had rain, so for the first time in months I found myself wondering what to do. In Melbourne I had always been working and in the 7 days I was in Sydney I had been sightseeing. Now I was in a seaside town that had little going for it apart from a beach that was soggy and plenty of cafes I couldn't affo...