September 13 - 16th. Byron Bay. - Chips and bongos by the sea. We arrived in Byron bay in the late afternoon via a children-packed school bus from Mullumbimby. Byron is a fairly alternative/hippy place (be it slightly watered down to made it more palatable to tourists) and the same was true of our hostel, the arts factory. A big, rather industrial, place it never-the-less succeded in having more character than your standard hostel (certainly a load more than an...

May 17th and 18th. Sydney- In which nearly everything possible goes wrong.The last blog was giant, but then again a lot happened in Fiji so it had to be really. Rest assured this one is a lot smaller, I was only in Sydney for one night, passing through on my way to Cairns. It would have been even briefer were it not for a law restricting flights into/out of the airport between 10PM and the early morning. All well and good for those living nearby but not nearly so...