Another ultimate bucket list entry. New Year in Sydney at the Opera House watching the celebrations. So we check in to our penultimate hotel and not a bad one in a great part of Sydney Darling Harbour great resturants and places to celebrate. We spend our time here exploring everywhere, we shopped till we dropped, ate in the revolving sky tower resturant. Here Louise tried Kangaroo and Crocodile sausages, we travelled by bus, boat and train. First stop Manly ...

Off the bucket list.... So after a most eventful overnight train journey we arrive 23rd Dec 2015 ready to do a Bondi christmas as always Day 1 consisted of finding our bearings. Our apartment was in lovely surroundings 200 metres from Bondi wow a few decrorations bought, the havianas lights being the highlight and christmas starts. Christmas eve we decided to walk south from Bondi Beach passing the huge sea water lido. On we walked passing coves and beaches un...

A lovely place to stop over on the long way to Sydney I can tell why my uncle Ben chose to emigrate and lived here. We stayed in hostel near the railway station, here we were drawn to the huge sofa (a luxury on the road) the rest of the group sat to watch the new Mad Max film... How cool in Oz watching the new iconic film but no it was that bad we gave up the sofa!! Highlights of Coffs harbour the shopping centre it was here that I decided i would start to eat h...

So this is the place I get into surfing.... well body boarding anyway. The lovely hostel has some we can borrow and this place is the chilled out surfers capital!! So we spend the days at the beach and absobing the atmosphere and a few cheeky beers on the way 'home'. A random evening of loosing time and we decide to go to the bottle shop and order pizza. It was then we spoke about Luke (whom Sarah said was here in Byron should could feel it in her water) who we h...

Surfers Paradise -Gold Coast Now we begin to visit iconic beaches along the coast towards Sydney. More beach time and hopefully great oceans to swim in. On arriving at the Gold Coast it had all the features we had seen on pictures and tv ... High buildings / sky scrapers and long golden beaches. We were staying at a resort hotel / hostel one block away from Surfers Paradise. It was an amazing view from our 5th floor room with balcony and when we ventured the one...