After making the decision to leave Sydney, I wasted no time at all. I booked the Greyhound Bus to Newcastle and the connection train that would take me to Tamworth where I would be collected at 9am on Monday morning to attend the Leconfield Jillaroo School! Yee haa!! :) I stayed at the YHA in Newcastle, which was a very short walk from the bus station and was a welcome sight after the hostel in Sydney. The Newcastle YHA was converted from an old 'gentleman's cl...

I'm now staying in dorm room at Sydney City backpacker's hostel in the centre of Sydney - which means that I can now walk to work in only 30 minutes (which makes a lovely change from having to commute!!)The hostel is basic to say the least, but it's a fairly quiet place (which is good when you have to get up for work in the mornings) and the rooms are clean (with the exception of the 10 bed dorm which was disgustingly messy and smelt of unwashed men...and socks!)...

Hello again! I decided to make the most of the Easter long weekend and head into the Blue Mountains for a few days. So, with my bags packed, I jumped on the 15.19 train from Central Station to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, a journey that would take about 2 hours. I made it to Katoomba Station at 17.30 and the first thing I saw as I came out of the station was an old red double decker London General bus! I really wasn’t expecting that!! So, with a smile on...

So........I arrived at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport at 7am on Wednesday 16th March, made it through passport control and customs in record time (having watched the programs on TV about their passport and customs teams, I was expecting to be there for at least an hour.......I was through there in 10 minutes tops!!). I made it to the airport train station and jumped on the train out to Gordon (which is the nearest town to where I'm now staying that has a train s...