You know when you arrive at your hostel on a Saturday night to find that it is actually quite literally a nightclub playing an unclassifiable noise that makes your entire fourteen-bed dorm shake until 2am? You know when that happens? No? You lucky b*****... So guess what happened on my first night back in Sydney (hint: see above)? Yep. I even went downstairs to the bar just to get a pint so I'd have a better chance of sleep. On the plus side, the beer was cheap,...

Today we crossed the Victoria-New South Wales border three times. We started by taking an incredibly windy road out of the mountains, stopping for a view and then to sneak up on a group of kangaroos and take some nice snaps. I stopped for long enough for a horse fly to take a chunk out of my leg. That will swell up. The rest of the day involved driving across several borders and reaching the border town of Albury-Wadonga. We took a swim, cooked and tried in vain...

Canberra is like a huge sculptured garden. It was basically built in the middle of Sydney and Melbourne for the soul purpose of being the capital city. It's very spread out, impossible to go shopping and expensive. Unless you do a the free things, like this. A trip to the war memorial with a free tour, a drive to the lookout for a failed picnic as it rained, then through memorial drive to Capital Hill to get a free tour around the parliament building. As if that ...

Today was sunny! And hot. Oh so hot. So we went to the beach! Hear the childlike excitement in my voice! Almost every time I've been near a beach in NSW, something has gone wrong... We've also gained some new friends in Xenia, Alex and Harmen. Harmen has a noisy LPG fuelled station wagon, so he followed us. From now on we are in convoy. First up, we visited a blowhole in the same town as our beach. It was much more impressive than the one in Tasmania, and it st...

In this episode, I get attacked by leeches, hide underground and drive a car... We have a car! And it works! I'm being spoiled. Corina and I headed to the Blue Mountains and as it was raining (the weather follows me everywhere) we decided to head underground. We looked around the Jenolan caves - the oldest cave system in the world - while the skies darkened above. The caves are impressive and so was the guide. Nice bloke. The rain poured just as we got into anot...