Hey everyone. Thankfully we managed to get a heater and some extra blankets for our room so we haven't been so cold at night! I know we are in Australia but is that any excuse for not having heating - they do have winters too! Anyway, enough moaning! :0) Yesterday we spent the day in Kings Park, which is huge! Got to see some lovely views of the city, lots of wild parrots, some kookaburras and lots and lots of parkland! It was a fun day, most of which w...

G'day maties! It is 8pm here just now and us girlies have just about thawed out from a freezing night of sleep! When we arrived here yesterday they were a bit disorganised as it was early in the morning so were weren't given warm blankets or anything. We asked for some later on and they were like "yeah, there's stuff over there so help yourselves", which we did so we took 2 blankets each. Once we were upstairs we realised the others had duvets and blankets but...

Well over the past few days since we left Sydney I have learned that the hardest thing about backpacking is ... backpacking!! Seriously, how can people carry those things about with them for days on end! The furthest we had to go with ours was about 800 yards from the hostel to the train station and believe me it was a bit of a struggle!! And it took me a long time to work out where all the straps etc went and what fastened to what! Dad - the guy in the shop may ...

G'day Maties! Been having a fantastic time here in Sydney since I last updated you all on Saturday. On Saturday the weather was much better so Michelle and I headed to Manly Beach which is a short ferry ride away. It was lovely and we were finally able to take our jackets off and actually get some photos that look summery! It was really weird being down on the beach as when you looked around you some people we wearing bikinis and trunks and then there were ...

This morning was lovely and warm so Michelle and I headed out with the intention of going to Manly Beach (Christine didn't want to come as has been before). We went down to the CBD first but by the time we had got there and had something to eat the clouds had become really black so we decided to give the beach a miss. We walked round to The Rocks which is just along the Sydney Harbour and spent time wandering around the weekend market. After a while it began...