Once we arrived in Sydney we made our way to Panania where we were going to be staying for a few nights with an Australian family. After being advised by my friend Lee back in June to start looking for hostels for Sydney in December ASAP, we did exactly that. But even back then, most hostels were fully booked due to Sydney being such a hot-spot for Christmas and New Year, and the hostels that were not quite fully booked were charging between $60-$100 per night fo...

After leaving the Australia Zoo, we almost missed the Greyhound to Brisbane as we were standing at the wrong stop. Luckily the bus was late so we were fine and got to Brisbane safe and sound. On arrival we had a bit of a walk to get to our hostel through the city centre. First impressions of Brisbane were good as it had a nice city feel to it. We checked into Base Embassy and once we had put our things in the room we went to explore the city. We walked to Vi...