Thursday 22nd January Having spent 17 hours on a bus we were both feeling surprisingly fresh, perhaps it had something to the coffee shots we had early in the morning? We made our way to the hostel in St Kilda, by the beach in Melbourne to check in and headed straight back out to keep ourselves awake and to explore the city we very quickly visited three years ago. We spent the day on the beach and later headed into the city for a walk around Federation Square. ...

After a long journey from Caloundra, passing through Brisbane and surfers, we were rather excited to be stopping at Byron Bay. Having been to this part of the world before and knowing it was an interesting place to be, we stepped off the coach with much enthusiasm. However, the reason we didn't stop in Noosa again was because we had such a fun first time around and we didn't think we would be lucky enough to reencounter the same experiences. We should have applie...