Thursday 7th January. I woke up at 4am and didn't get back to sleep thanks to Jet lag. We both got up at half 7 and went and grabbed some coco pops in the dining area and got ready to head out for the day. It was cloudy in the morning but cleared up later on. Kirsty wanted to find a hairdressers and we wanted to see central Sydney, so we set out with an old fashioned paper map to find our way. We walked around for two hours trying to find a hairdressers a friend...

Wednesday 6th January. Although it's Wednesday in Australia, because they are 11 hours ahead, it's still only Tuesday in England, so I was completely confused what day and time it was all day. It didn't matter though because we were finally here! We checked in to our hostel, Sydney Central YHA, which is more like a small budget hotel than a hostel. We were upgraded to a private double room for free, thanks to Kirsty's friend who now lives in Sydney knowing peopl...

Tuesday 5th January. We drifted in and out of sleep for 12 hours. The first couple of hours we had a light in the doorway which kept turning itself on and we couldn't work out why, so it kept waking us up and we would turn it back off. We laughed it off in the end because it was really annoying! We then had a phone call from reception at 09:00 asking if we were supposed to have checked out at 05:00, I corrected her it was 17:00 and also had to laugh, because if ...

Monday 4th January. We landed in Dubai around 7 hours later which now felt like 04:30 to my body but was actually 08:30, and I still hadn't slept. We had a 7 hour connection and i had read about the snooze cubes at the airport which are 28 U.S dollars an hour for a twin cube for two people. It is literally a boxed room with two twin beds in and a tv and plug. We couldn't even shut the door until we were sat on the beds because there was no room. The walls were p...

Sunday 3rd January 2016. New Year, New Start, New Adventure. I'm so excited that me and my sister Kirsty, are Australia bound for the next 8 weeks to travel up the east coast. Our plan is to do some if not all of this in a camper van, much to the amusement of our friends and family. Apparently they don't see us as "camper van" types, whatever that means. We have all agreed it's best I'm the main driver though as Kirsty, although clever, is possibly the dizziest ...