Hey Guys! Firstly, let me wish you all a belated happy Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope 2008 brings everything you desire and that you do better at keeping your resolutions than I am! So, the festive period found me not only back in Sydney but back working at my old stomping ground: The Maze! The manager here, Mick, found me some work for a few weeks and so I decided to stay around and spend christmas with my sydney mates! So three things have...

Hey Guys! I am SO sorry for not updating at all in the last few months, I have been so busy working and having fun that I have not had time! To say the least, it has been a hectic period culminating in me moving up Australia's east coast in a relocation to tropical Cairns! What have you been up to I hear you cry! Well, here it is... My time in Sydney came to end on the 11th of October, after which I made the short two hour flight up the coast to Cairns. Before ...

Hey Guys! Yet again I must apologise for taking ages to reply! I haven't been ignoring you, honest! The reason is that in the last three weeks or so have been really busy at work due to world youth week. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is a large gathering of Catholics in Sydney with marches and services culminating with the Pope himself giving an address. Needless to say, the hostel was pretty much fully booked and we have all be...

Hey Guys, I am sorry that I have been so remiss on my postings lately, I have literally been worked off my feet at the hostel, so I was too busy to write and did not have anything interested to tell you anyway! In between shifts however, I have been having some fun! My friend John who I met on Coogee Beach came back from the up the coast last week and crashed at my house for a few days. We managed to fit in a few trips around my shifts, including...

I have had a really busy few days, as not only have I been cramming in the hours at work, I have also been being as 'touristy' as possible with my Scottish friends. Sadly, they have left now, but we are aiming to meet up in New Zealand later in the year. On Tuesday, all three of us took advantage of a hostel staff discount to book places on a day tour to the Blue Mountains, a world heritage site and often described as '"The Grand Canyon of Australia"....