I woke up fairly early, 9am, and couldn't get back to sleep for some reason. It was raining anyway so I just lounged around until Therese woke up at 11am. Everyone else in the room was asleep too. My neck is aching from that stupid game last night! And that was pretty much it all day. The most crappy weather - torrential rain all day. We'd get a 10 minute break in the rain, and then it would start again. Further north, where we are due to get to soon, they are ...

We both managed to get some sleep on the coach. Not easy sleeping on a coach though is it? You try to hold your head up, then start getting to sleep and your head just falls. I've seen Therese sleep a few times now with her head just hanging down. Three and half hours later we got to Byron Bay. A small chilled-out town with lots of little trinket shops, nice restaurants and some pubs/bars. The town tries to keep it's charm and they won't even allow a McDonalds i...

We were woken up at "Surf O'clock" this morning - 7am. Could have some with another 5 hours sleep considering we've hardly had any due to one guy snoring all night and another coughing his lungs up. Quick change into our swim gear, brush teeth, checkout and down for breakfast. Pretty good breakfast actually with a mini fry-up, cereals, fruit and toast. At 8am we started our surf briefing. The instructors were just like stereotypical "surf dudes". Lounging about ...

Up at 5.30am this morning! Woke up just before the alarm went off as well. Don't feel as tired when that happens. Checked out by 6.15am and ready for our bus which came at 6.25am. There were about 10 leaving from our hostel to get the same bus as us. It's called Oz Experience and is a hop-on hop-off bus taking us from Sydney to Cairns. There's lots of stop off points along the way and we can jump off wherever we like and stay as long as we want. Cost us £335 ea...

Been sorting out our plans for the next few weeks again. I'm glad we did so much planning ahead before we came away because it is way too time consuming doing it on the go. We managed to get quite a bit sorted out anyway. Only problem now is that the weather is supposed to be ridiculously bad where we should be in about 2 weeks time. Most severe flooding for 40 years or something. Typical. We went for a walk down to Paddy's Markets. Same old that we've seen all...