Hi everyone! Well here I am now in Melbourne again.  I came to Melbourne on 5th Jan as I was struggling to find a place to live as the place is just full of tourists from Xmas and New year so I decided it would be easier to find a place here.  Cheryl and Mel (the girls I have been travelling with) decided to come to Melbourne a week or so after me as they still could not find a place in Sydney and unfortunately it seems to be the same here too but its w...

Hi everyone, hope you all had a brilliant Xmas and New Year, I wished I could have been there to spend it with you all.  I have lots to tell you all but I don't want to bore you too much so i will try and keep it short and sweet. We arrived in Sydney on 18th December and spent 10 days in Glebe which is about 20 minutes from the City Centre as all the hostel in Sydney Centre were full with it being Xmas.  We met a few people at the hos...

We left Surfers Sunday morning to head for Byron Bay before heading on towards Sydney for Xmas. As we were on a bit of a time limit to get to Sydney we just spent the day in Byron rather than staying over night. When we arrived into Byron we were just in time to catch the Shuttle to Nim Bin (the Australian version of our Amsterdam). First stop in Nim Bin was the local pub where the place stunk of weed - we were there not even 2 minutes and were already being offe...

We left Hervey Bay to head towards Surfers Paradise for a few days before heading towards Sydney. We checked in at Islanders Backpackers which is the best Backpackers place I have ever stayed in - we had a major swimming pool, steam room, jaccuzi, spa, tennis courts, badminton courts, balcony, double beds, casino, games room, beautiful bar and last but not least the beach was in view of our room, total paradise for a backpackers rate of $27 per night. We arrived ...

We left Airlie Beach to head for Hervey Bay to do the Fraser Island tour. You may be wondering why I am going back down the East Coast as I have already done the East Coast but the girls I am with have not done the East Coast yet and also we all want to head back to Sydney for Xmas as it seems to be the place to be, not to mention that it is getting far too hot up north. The bus journey to Hervey Bay was 12 hours so we stopped off at Mackay for a few hours a...