Another beautiful day and I snuck out for an early run, returning in a disgusting state but feeling on top of the world. Tea, followed by breakfast, set us up perfectly for another day on the beach, this time heading down the coast to Bronte. It was more sea, sunshine and golden sand before we had lunch on the front and then returned to our warm area of beach. The surf was monstrous and made entertaining watching, reinforcing my decision to leave the surfboard at...

After a morning run and a gloriously relaxed breakfast we beached ourselves on Bondi. I manouvered Luke's surfboard through the public transport system and caught a couple of waves, but mostly got munched by the monstrous surf and swept along by the serious rip tides. Bob read a million books on the beach and we had lunch on the front followed by Mesina icecreams which lived up to their hype. I had a 'Jamie Lanister' special whilst Bob tried to come to terms with...

We woke to an empty apartment, Luke and Bec having already headed in to work and it was bliss. I successfully hunter-gathered breakfast materials, as well as 2 opal travel cards, and we sat down to read the artistically scribbled list of possible activities which the guys had left us to help organise our day. We headed into the city as over-awed little church mice and we were jostled through the towering CBD on our way to the harbour bridge. En route we spent a ...

The flight out of NZ went smoothly and we arrived in Sydney to be welcomed by a fantastically familiar face. Luke introduced us to Bec and we spent the journey back to their apartment catching up on our current situations, in between Luke pointing out the local landmarks. Our hosts had cunningly arranged that the car in which they had picked us up from the airport had to be returned to the town centre, next to an excellent pub. This is where we started our evenin...