We arrived in Mission Beach after a 4 ½hour journey from Townsville and were met by Sianne who drove us back to the YHA hostel. Whilst the YHA is a fair way out of the main town, it is worth travelling to! The hostel itself is basically an oversized tree-house!!! It's all open sided (except for the bedrooms), has a beautiful pool and several hammocks to wile away your days. In other words, it's just super chilled out here! Our room was basic, but we had a wh...

I made it to Townsville at about 12.15am and dragged all my bags down to the hostel which turned out to be right in the middle of party central. When I finally made it to my room I had to dodge the mess on the floor (7 guys sharing 1 small room = bad idea!!), then there was the noise from the nightclub nearby, not to mention the 7 varying levels of snoring and a general pong of unwashed male backpacker!! Mmmm....nice! Smells like the colour brown!! I have never ...

The distance between Brisbane and Airlie Beach, whilst looking fairly short on the map, takes a painful 18 hours on the Greyhound!! Leaving Brisbane at 3pm got me to Airlie Beach at 9am the following morning!!! I picked a hostel at random out of the Lonely Planet guide (aka the backpacker’s bible) and somehow managed to pick the one closest to the bus station and the beach! Not bad going! They let me check in early, but since the 8 bed dorm that I should have...

Hello again, Sorry I’ve not posted for so long...I’ve been far too busy having fun! After leaving Leconfield we had one day to waste in Tamworth whilst we waited for our bus to Brisbane (which was at 12.50am!!). Thankfully, this meant that we were able to sleep most of the 9 hour journey to Brisbane! We arrived in Brisbane at around 9.45am on Sunday, booked a hostel through the information desk at the bus station and then headed off, armed with a map and s...

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...