Job Trials and Tribulations Sooner or later every traveller begins to realise that they have been a having a bit too much of a good time and they are in fact running out of funds. Unless they want to end up fighting a hobo for a share of a doorway in King's Cross and eating free meals at The Gaff every night (there's only so much watery pasta a girl can take), then the only solution is to begin the near impossibility of searching for a job. Many will of course ...

So there I was at Noah's Backpackers in Bondi Beach, looking forward to a week of the beach and job hunting. After a knackering first day I had an alcohol free evening and even an early night! The next day the sun was out and I hit the beach and waited for Svenja, who came to join me. As the weather was so gorgeous for the first few days, job hunting proved to be difficult as the beach was just too tempting. We sweated out way along the 5km walk from Bondi to Co...

G'day From Down Under! (Yeah I can't think of anything more original...) To do list for Sydney: See a kangeroo (x); eat a kangeroo (x); see a koala (x); see the Sydney Opera House (x); meet an attractive life guard; ask an Australian to 'put another shrimp on the barbie'; wind up an Australian by going on about how your tan gives you a healthy glow (x); moan that the weather is too cold (x); freak out about cockroaches/ spiders/ creepy crawlies of gigantic prop...