Friday 22nd January. The sun woke us up at 7am because the camper van felt like an oven. We were both fuming, but got up and started the day. I went in to the centre on the bus on my own about 08:30. I was chatting to a local old lady at the bus stop who was really friendly. The people here seem to be a lot more approachable and friendly than they are at home which is comforting when you are so far away from home. I went to the Optus shop to get an Australian SI...

Thursday 21st January. Moving on day again. We left Byron after I'd done some last minute shopping and headed for the Gold Coast. It only took a couple of hours to drive there and we checked in our camp site at Main Beach Tourist Park in the afternoon. Strangely enough the time zone changes when you hit Queensland and we were now an hour behind New South Wales. The campsite was nice, had a swimming pool, and it was mostly families there on holiday. We quickly lo...

Wednesday 20th January. Kirsty's alarm had gone off at 07:30 and she had gone out to call her boyfriend like every morning. So I rolled over and lay trying to decide whether to get up or not. Then, I was out the van faster than Usain bolt, because above me on the window was a massive spider! Now I don't like spiders, but when I'm at home I do get brave enough to get close and kill them. There was absolutely no chance I was going near this big thing. I stood outs...

Tuesday 19th January. I must be the only person who has a cough and a cold in the middle of the Australian summer, but I felt rough when I woke up. I blame Kirsty. She had a cough before me and would never put her hand over her mouth when coughing no matter how many times I asked her, so here I am now poorly. I spent the morning walking around the clothes shops and picked up a maxi dress to cover the new sunburn I have randomly on the back of my knees from surfi...

Monday 18th January. Surprisingly not feeling too bad this morning, I managed to get myself up in time for the mini bus to pick us up for surfing at 8:40. There were two buses, we were on the bus with two French girls, two Swish guys called Cyril and Cyril, three Swedish guys and Carl who was Dutch. He ended up sitting next to me on the way there so we were just talking about our travels and what we were expecting from surfing. He said his friend wouldn't come b...