We have been exceptionally lucky with the location of our hostels from the bus station. Until now. Arriving in Brisbane we realised we needed to get a train and walk for 10 minutes to get to our hostel. Deciding we were far too tired to mess around with public transport in the dark, we split a taxi with another girl and just about managed to get there. (It's starting to become apparent that London is the only place where taxi drivers know locations without you t...

Waking up in Surfers, we discovered two things. One: the lack of curtains meant it was actually light enough for us to pack in the morning. Two: the lack of air conditioning meant it was far too hot for us to pack. After checking out, which seemed to be as much hassle as checking in (they decided to tell us we hadn't paid our $20 deposit in cash only 12 hours ago), we headed to the beach. Although we felt ill and tired, we decided we didn't want to spend any ti...

With the lack of sleep finally catching up with us, we felt really rough but tried to power through for our last day in Byron Bay. We decided to walk to the Byron Bay Lighthouse, which follows a beautiful hiking trail with gorgeous views of the ocean and the most easterly point of Australia. Unfortunately, we went the wrong way and didn't realise for a very long time, so we gave up and went to the beach for a lie down. Still not feeling 100%, we went back t...

The twelve hour bus journey overnight meant that we arrived in Byron Bay at 7 am, hungry, grumpy and disgustingly tired. As we couldn't check in until 2 pm we showered and then decided to splurge on a big breakfast because we deserved it. Next we headed to the beach and got the chance to take in the chilled out atmosphere of the town. After falling asleep on the beach (not a brilliant idea - ask Mikaela) we had lunch on the beach and went to check in. The...

Up at 9am and checked out by 10, we grabbed some vegemite on toast for our train journey to Luna Park. We decided it was far too hot to walk, talk, and eat all at the same time so we sat down in a park looking over the Harbour, with a view of the Opera House. It was here that we noticed one of my favourite things I've seen so far; a guy paddle-boarding to an unknown location, with a backpack and fully dressed. For all we know, he might still be going. Wa...