Hello everyone, Our next stop on our trip up north was a town called Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. Here we stayed in a really nice apartment at a backpackers which we shared with another couple but as we saw so little of them we pretty much had it to ourselves. On our first night we chilled out, had some beers and watched TV. In the morning we went for an explore along the beach. Annoyingly we'd wanted to get some more surfing in but the weather was a bit...

Hello everyone, So on 26th August we took the Greyhound from Coffs Harbour to Byron Bay. Byron is a fairly small, nice town with a hippy/surfer sort of vibe and is very popular with backpackers like us. We arrived during the evening and headed to our accommodation, a lively backpacker hostel called Arts Factory Backpackers Lodge. The place was really nice, but to our annoyance we were woken up by this drunk Irish girl who decided to talk to her friend really lou...

Hello everyone, On 24th September we got back on the greyhound in Sydney ready for our trip to Coffs Harbour. We had to walk through Kings Cross just before 6am so we saw some interesting people falling out of the clubs. The trip took over 8 hours, so another long journey of listening to the iPod and gazing out of the window (and listening to Ryan going on about bikes). When we arrived we got a lift to our accommodation. This time we stayed at a motel which was ...

Hello everyone, We boarded our greyhound bus in Melbourne bright and early on Wednesday 21st September. I'd already booked a pass which allowed us to get on and off where we wanted at various places between Melbourne and Cairns. Our first stop was Sydney and it took around 14 hours (!) to get there. Me and Ryan had a competition going to see who could spot the first kangaroo, Ryan won when he saw a whole load of them in a field. The trip wasn't too bad and I thi...

Hello everyone, Firstly, I'd like to say thanks for all the lovely messages everyones been leaving, we have been reading them but haven't replied because for some reason the ipad wont let me click in the box :) We eventually landed in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 2nd September. After having spent 9 weeks in a tropical climate, the cold temperature came as a bit of a shock to us, especially as we were still wearing shorts and flip flops! To be honest we were e...