Hello everyone, happy new year! I hope you all had a good break. I'm currently in the blue mountains 100km west of Sydney where its raining incessantly! So much for the Australian summer. I've got a few days to kill before I fly to Dunedin in south east New Zealand on the 13th. I've booked to go on the 'Kiwi Experience' trip which is basically a guided tour of both islands - it was on offer at about a third of the normal price, too good an opportunity to turn do...

Hello everyone, Im in Cairns, just about to fly across the country to Perth but I'm afraid doing this blog on a day by day basis has become a bit of a pain in the arse so I'm going to do it a bit more briefly from now on. Here goes..... Sunday 21st - Monday 22nd November Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Qld We didn't do a lot for the rest of our time at surfers, the place was mobbed with 'schoolies' - kids celebrating finishing school - and they took over the town a...

Hi Everyone, Sorry I havent been updating the blog recently, Im working on it and it should be fully up to date soon but theres quite a lot to cover because Ive been so slack! Ive been in australia for about 2 weeks now, I landed in Sydney and Im working my way north to Cairns. Ive stopped in Sydney, Coffs Harbour, Byron Bay and Im currently in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. I will be moving on to Brisbane soon. I have a ticket for the first day of the tes...

Monday 18th October Sorrento-Bari I got up at 6 and was out of the hostel by 6.45 as I had to catch a train from naples at 8.55 to get me over to Bari and the overnight ferry to greece. Unfortunately I had a little dispute on check out regarding a breakfast the previous day which I had already paid for then I somehow walked past the station without noticing it! This made me a little late then the train I did eventually get on sat in the station for a good 20 m...

Friday 8th October Nice-Monaco-Ventimiglia-Genoa-Milan This was a long travel day! After leaving Nice I took the short train trip to Monaco. Unfortunately, I couldn't leave my backpack anywhere at the station so my stop wasn't as long as I had planned. I had a quick look around the marina and had a bit of a sit down to admire the boats and the scenery then I took the train to a scruffy seaside town over the italian border called Ventimiglia where I had to cha...