Whether you like it or not this is part 2 of our Sydney adventure, Saturday 14th Got ourselves up reasonably early and headed out to the park to meet up with Dom and the lads for a bit of a kick about. Challenged some Scousers to a game, which did get rather competitive but we came out victorious, much to the obvious dislike of the Scousers, so all was good. Went out that night with all the guys, checked out a place called 3 Monkeys, which had a band pl...

So this is Sydney, we've been here a while now so thought we'd better put all that we've done down before we forget it, this is only part 1 so look out for part 2, if you enjoy this one that is. Friday 6th After getting off the bus and checking into Wake Up we decided to continue the party celebrations that had begun earlier on the bus. So we all did ourselves up in our finest backpacker going out gear and headed to the bar downstairs, Sidebar. The plan...

The time had come to leave melbourne (we so easily could have stayed - such a relaxed way of life!) So it came that on tueday morning at 7:00am we were standing outside Base Hostel waiting for the OZ Experience bus to arrive. Met Tom for the first time, and stuart. First impressions had to be ignored as we were all still asleep and the conversation consisted of grunting (although our mothers will probably claim thats what we're like most of the time! - its not tr...

Saturday 23rd Arrived in Melbourne after the short flight from NZ, knowing that this place would be our home for the next 2-and-a-half months. Got ourselves checked into the Coffee Palace which was hardly worthy of name on first inspection but the guy on the desk, Kev, seemed nice enough so we were satisfied, the cheap price of a bed did help as well. Went and got ourselves a kebab and settled down to watch Fulham get beaten again, and retired to bed fairly ear...

Hey! Here's NZ from where we left off last time; the more exciting side! On Tueday we finally got our car, so after quickly buying a few things that we had stolen, like a new camera, we were finally on our way round New Zealand! The car was ok - 1.8 Nissan 5 Door etc, yet again it was automatic. Did help though on the long drives, just not as fun. Firstly we headed down to Rotorua. Stayed at the Hot Rock Hostel, and had a nice swim in the thermal swimming...