We had a long lie in til midday which was nice. At midday we got up to get ready. This annoying Chinese guy in our room who stays out all night and gets in at 9am got annoyed with us for turning the light on, but I just said 'it's midday, we're getting ready and we'll turn it off when we leave'. That's assertive for me as I'm normally completely non-confrontational! By the time we'd got ready, and been online to book our Greyhound to Canberra and accommodation i...

We got up and ready after a little lie in and left the hostel at around 10.30am to go to the zoo. On the way to the ferry port Hannah bought a new camera as hers has broken. It's a pretty good Canon Ixus. Seeing all of the good cameras reminded me how rubbish my £60 Fujifilm one is, so if I ever get a job I'm going to save up for a decent camera. At the ferry terminal we bought our joint zoo and ferry ticket, and got the 12pm boat over to Taronga Zoo. To get ...

We got up at around 10.30am today (except early riser Vicky) and went to meet Jon and Anna at the Queen Victoria Building (QVB). The QVB is an old Victorian shopping centre with nice, but pricey shops in. It's such a lovely building though. We wandered around window shopping for a bit, before heading towards The Rocks (near the Harbour). On the way we stopped at another Victorian arcade, which reminded me of the arcades on either side of Main Street USA in Disney...

I got up at around 8.45am and had one last shower in the Ruffles' amazing shower, and packed my stuff. Linda took us into Newcastle to get the 10.25am Greyhound, but it didn't arrive until gone midday, so we had to wait for an hour and 45 minutes in the heat! It transpired that it had got a flat tyre earlier on in the journey. The journey to Sydney was only a couple of hours, and we drove in over the Harbour Bridge and saw our first view of the Sydney Opera Hous...