Well of course it's raining, I'm here! Just like my first day in Cape Town, my first day in Sydney was spent in the pouring rain! Just like in Cape Town I was forced into a museum to seek solace from the weather! To be fair though, it was The Australia Museum and was pretty impressive: skeletons, giant wombats, stuffed birds of every kind, and of course the obligatory screaming children that were on school holidays! Museums just wouldn't be the same if an 8 year ...

Drove over the Sydney Harbour Bridge at 10.30 this morning, pretty impressive, but after 10 hours on the coach the Victoria Falls wouldn't even have a thrilling effect on me... well maybe they would! The driver couldn't tell me where William Street was, nor could his coach driver friend who was a 'Sydney driver': hate to be on his coach! Eventually got the train to Kings Cross and walked from there: the Korean girl from the Coffs Harbour YHA decided to try and b...

Arrived in Coffs Harbour just 4 hours after leaving Byron Bay, not a bad journey, in fact I might go as far as to say I like coaches now. But I won't. The YHA had put on a shuttle for us to get to the hostel so I didn't have to trawl the numerous kilometres it appeared to be back to the place with my backpack on again, the backpack that doesn't seem to get lighter even though I throw out bits and bobs every time I open it! I was in a 6-bed dorm this time, 2 girl...

Well I made it to the infamous Byron Bay, although it was a mighty fleeting visit! The Greyhound dropped me off at about 3pm: after remembering to put my watch forward I checked in just down the road at the YHA. They handed my sheets, and the stay didn't start well, with long hair having to be pulled out from between them! I moved past it though! As soon as I'd wolfed down a much-needed dry bread sarnie I headed to the beach and tried to see the lighthouse, as t...