Mike: Day 8: In the morning we wake up early in the van with rush hour traffic pounding the highway next to us. The first thing that greets us is a strong smell of last nights curry still unwashed in the back of Bertha. We decide to be on the safe side, pack up our stuff and head off without any breakfast. We make an hour or so back track to Nymboida to get an early half day canoeing on the go. We get there around 8:30 and are actually met by the caretaker. He t...

Mike: Day 1. We packed our things from our hostel and head out into town. We decide that a taxi would be far too expensive so we jump on a nearby tube then get a long bus to botany where "jucy" (the company who we are renting the van off of) is located. We eventually get there about 11ish am we are informed that we are the last pick up of the day and that he had people waiting outside the gates a hour before they opened (did we miss something?). There is good new...

Alicia: one of my favourite places we've visited do far. In all we got to spend two weeks in Sydney finally enjoying catching up with everything and being able to live in a city for a bit. We arrived in Oz on the Saturday before the big All Blacks vs Wallabies rugby game. Mike had been offered a spare ticket by a guy we met earlier in the day in Auckland for it but had to pass it up because we were flying out. We still managed to catch it at the Sugar Mill pub i...