Our flight back to Melbourne was not until 5.30pm so we had all day to kill in Sydney. After thankfully checking out of our hostel, we headed down to the harbour to have another look at the harbour bridge and the opera house. We then had a walk around the botanic gardens which we were really good. As we are heading to Asia for 6 months, we thought we would take some advantage of some western food for the last time in a while and went to Pizza Hut buffet!!!! A...

We left the luxury of staying at the Hilton at 20 past 6 on Monday morning to get the shuttle bus to Melbourne Avalon airport for our flight to Sydney. We've been to some pretty small airports but this one was absolutely tiny with only 3 flights per day and we were somehow allowed to take a big bottle of water through security which is something you definitely can't do in the UK. Anyways our flight was good and it only took an hour and twenty minutes to get to ...

It's been a long while since our last blog as we've been pretty busy since our last update in Auckland. We flew out of Auckland for Melbourne on Tuesday on a flight which took about 4 hours. We had our transfer to our hotel booked so getting to our accommodation was nice and straight forward. The first thing that we did notice when we left the air conditioning of the airport was the ridiculous heat!! We were told that it was 40 degrees on the day we arrived a...

So this is now our final day in New Zealand before we fly to Melbourne. On our second to last night in Auckland we went for a meal with Gareth and Jared who we had travelled for about a month with in South America. It was really good to catch up with them again now that they are back home in Auckland. We went for a really good curry before they took us to a couple of spots which provide excellent views of the city. Although it was dark, the views were pretty ...

It's been a while since our last blog update mainly due to the lack of wifi which we've had over the past few days. After leaving Taupo, we spent a night in Auckland before we were headed to Paihia which is in the Bay of Islands in the north of New Zealand. Our stay in Auckland was pretty uneventful apart from us getting undercharged by 20 dollars for our room which was a bonus and then having to be up at quarter to 6 to catch our bus to Paihia. The bus to Pah...