Its Easter weekend yay! Good Friday the Cecil is only open until 9pm so when we heard there was a Scottish Festival on Easter weekend we decided to get involved. South of Casino there's a town called MacLean, the most Scottish town in Australia. Every year they hold the Maclean Highland Gathering weekend with pipe band parades, highland games and scottish stalls. We hired a car on the Friday and headed to Grafton to stay in a motel. We got up early on the Satur...

Today is my 24th shift in a row at the Hotel Cecil in Casino, NSW. Its been the craziest 3 weeks as i started off with 50 hour weeks doing training. Hotel Cecil isn't actually a hotel; We have the main bar, gaming room, restaurant that opens for lunch and dinner, back bar which opens on Friday nights until 1am and other nights for functions and a bottle shop (a drive through bottle shop!). I live above the bar with Lesley. There was another backpacker living her...

After Byron we went to Surfers Paradise for 2 days but due to the obscene weather, we didn't do much. Its a party beach place (kind of reminds me of Magalluf...) so will be good for a weekend away with a group. Will write more about it if i ever return. We booked the bus to take us to Brisbane which isn't far from Surfers at all. We had booked Base hostel - theres 2 in Brisbane a few blocks from each other - but we were recommended to stay in Base Embassy. There...

Nimbin is a famous little place just outside Byron Bay... Typically famous for the stoners, weed smokers and weed eaters.... A day trip to Nimbin is included with your Ozexperience bus so we booked up once we got to Byron. Not to anyones surprise it was raining, rain in Oz is a million times worse than home. Its humid, terrential and comes when you least expect it..... The bus picked us up from our hostel and when we seen it we were shocked and nervous - the b...

The Mojo bus dropped us at the Byron Bay bus station - which is actually only one bus stop on one of the main streets! I heard so many mixed reports about Byron Bay - Ozzies hate it cause its so commercialised but i fell in love with it before i even got there. We stayed at the Byron Beach Resort, about a 15 min walk to the town centre. All of the hostels run courtesy buses at certain times daily so we walked over to the car park and jumped on our wee bus straig...