Austraila... Done! The Oz bus stops at various places throughout the day- and you get off at the stop you've booked in advance. To our surprise when we got to Noosa (the stop before Rainbow Beach) we were told by the driver that our seats had been double booked, or actually that they had only booked us as far as Noosa so we had to get off the bus to make way for two girls who had booked on. Little did we know that we would spend the rest of our trip with them. I...

The way we planned to travel up the East Coast was on the Oz EXperience buses-because of the fun we had in NZ and what better way to start the experience than with a 6am start ( after alex had got up at 4.45am for Utd vs. Schalke) and a crocodile pie for lunch. Yummy! Our first stop was in Byron Bat where we had planned to visit the lighthouse and Cape Byron and do some surfing but we weren't able to because of the torrential rain. North of Byron we stopped at Su...

TheStart of The East Coast After dropping off our trusty camper we made our way to the kKings Cross Area of Sydney - which we quickly learnt wasn't the nicest part of the city. The first couple of days we explored the city to get our bearings - having our first glimpses of the opera house and the bridge in the process. We really enjoyed the atmosphere in the CBD and became very familiar with George Street (the high street). We took the chance to go and visit Sy...

Campervan We left the city and headed to pick up our campervan. The company we hired from is known for their vans with outrageous designs, and having seen some other designs, we hoped ours wasn't too controversial. When we arrived at the pick-up point we both let out a sigh of relief... even though it was criminally bright, it wasn't as rude or offensive as some we had seen. In fact it looked quite like the mystery Machine from Scooby Doo! The van had two seat...