Having the best time still, mainly helped by the fact that we have such wonderful hosts with a lovely flat. Last sunday we had a very lazy day, eating lots of yummy food. Liz cooked us her famous bean soup for lunch, we then watched australia with popcorn and sweets and then had the most gorgeous roast chicken dinner followed by apple crumble and custard. Truely amazing, considering we have lived off pasta and rice for 2 months! Mon and tues were quite wet days,...

Well what a busy week in sydney. it has gone so fast though, glad we still have another week here. We have done lots of sightseeing, taken far too may pictures of the opera house and the bridge! We have been to bondi beach and manly beach, wandered around the botanical gardens, visited darling harbour and done a day trip to the blue mountains. That was a good day out, really gorgeous scenery and we got a river cruise back into the harbour at the end of the day,...

We ended up staying the night in surfers paradise as our friends were staying there. Its a weird place, lots of high rise buildings along the beach, with a load of tacky bars. very similar to benidorm if you have been there! But we had a good drunken night out in Sin city anyway! We headed to byron bay, another gorgeous coastal town. First day we were able to sunbathe and go for a nice walk up to the lighthouse, up a lot of steep steps. We stopped at the most e...