We arrived in Brisbane half an hour late and went to find Laura's Uncle John who had been waiting for us. After a quick look for the car we headed off to the surburbs of Brisbane where Uncle john lives. He has a wonderful house overlooking the sea. After unpacking and eating lunch we went for a drive to take a look at the local scenery. (He kindly let us borrow his camera so we could take some pics.) The next day we took a River-Cat up Brisbane's river to get a...

This Blog covers our journey from Sydney to Byron Bay.First stop was Forster, we went there because after our drunken conversation with the hippies in Canberra, Forster was underlined on our map in our guide book, can't remember much of what was said about it, so thought we'd stop over there. We are sure it would have been a lovely place in the sunshine but as it happens it was chucking it down and although the place is apparently always chocker with dolp...

Hello from Sydney, I think its safe to say that New South Wales ain't much like South Wales although at the moment it seems it rains almost as much.Sydney is a fantastic city, a proper city unlike Camberra. Although one word of advice to anyone about to visit Sydney is that if you're going to see the Opera House make sure you see it on a nice day. On a miserable day its really nothing special but if you see it on a nice day it'll blow you away.So we d...

We spent the majority of our time in Canberra defending our decision to come and visit it with the locals. So we arrived on Saturday afternoon after Chris kindly dropped us off at the nearest Greyhound stop. And after doing a bit of unpacking we headed straight to the nearest pub. Which to our luck happened to be the best pub in Canberra called The Pheonix. After a bit we were joined by 2 guys (one as camp as anything the other a macho army man) with a chess bo...

Bright is a fantastic little town in the Bush.It's situated in a valley near Mount Buffalo and so has lots of Skiing on the snow capped mountains. we didn't get to do any skiing which is probably for the best as we would have broken something.We stayed at Chris's house which is gorgeous with a open fire, which we spent the nights admiring.Our first day at Bright we spent with Felix as he felt ill and had to come home from school, so he showed us aroun...