That evening, we headed over to Federation square where there was a food and wine festival on. We had a bit of a wander, after having some sushi (which I've missed) and then watched a random German film outside in the square. It was a really nice atmosphere. Apparently we'd missed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which was the day before which was a bit of a shame. Then we just came back to the hostel and got a relatively early night. Yesterday, I met up with a...

I had a very early start on the Saturday morning which was the first of many. Tasha kindly dropped me off for the bus at 6.30am and I said bye. I was sad to be leaving her and Sydney and had had a really nice time there. But the bus journey continued. We stopped off in Canberra which was apparently picked as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne were fighting over which should be picked as capital and this was somewhere in the middle. We had a tour around Parl...

It's my last night in Sydney, a Friday night and I'm in!! However, I have a bus which is a 3 day trip down to Melbourne tomorrow at 7am so I'm going to keep it tame. I met up with Tasha in the evening and her boyfriend kindly picked us up which was nice rather than the bus. Then her mum cooked us a lovely pork chop dinner and it was so nice to have a base and have a real house and be looked after. We had dinner, a glass of wine and just chatted which was really ...

We got to surf camp just after lunchtime and then settled our stuff in our rooms. It was quite a cosy place with basic stuff but it was only one night and seemed like it would be fun so it was fine. Then we had a briefing about the safety risks/general life threatening risks involved with surfing for about 45mins and then, I was pretty much surfing like the guy in this photo! Or not... We got out to the beach and practiced getting up on the board, really easy ac...

That night, I got an early night as the previous night had been quite a late one so a few of us just chilled out in the room which was nice. In the morning I woke up and just went on the Internet briefly, had some lunch and then met up with the Canadians and another girl to get the bus. There was quite a big group of us on that one and a few familiar faces but some were getting off at Surfer's Paradise whereas we were going straight to Byron Bay. Anyway, it raine...