After such a busy Christmas, we hadn't even had a chance to see the Harbour and the Opera house, so we decided to have a sight seeing day. We had a walk through the Botanical Gardens then made our way to the Opera House. The area around the Opera house was so busy with tourists, but it was easy to see why people come here as it really is a gorgeous building! The Harbour bridge was just at the side of it and seeing it made me really excited for New Years eve. ...

Christmas Time! After our over night bus from Byron Bay we arrived early in Sydney on Christmas Eve. We went to Helens to put our bags in then straight out to the city centre for some shopping. Being Christmas Eve the shops were so busy, but it didn't bother us and we were so excited to be there. After shopping all day, we had tea in an Irish pub called Scruffy Murphy's which had the best $7 meals ever! Like on xmas eve night at home, we had an xmas eve night...

Surfer's Paradise & Byron Bay Our twenty two hour bus journey was not fun to say the least. There was no seats together so I had to sit next to a boy who took up all my space, and squashed me against the window for most of the journey while he slept! But finally we got off the bus and arrived quite late in Surfers Paradise. We didn't have a clue where our hostel was, and after walking around lost for a while we found out that we had to get a bus to it beca...

Cairns & Airlie Beach We were both excited to arrive in Cairns! We got to our hostel quite late, and couldnt believe how humid it still was. After our two flights we had an early night ready to explore Cairns the next day. The next morning we had a walk around and decided as we were in Australia we wanted to get our pictures taken with a Koala bear. Rather than going all the way to the zoo, there was a casino not far from our hostel that strangely had an ...

New Zealand - South Island After arriving in Christchurch we picked up our Jucy camper van, and started making our way towards the west side of the island. To get there we began to drive on a through a national park called Arthur's Pass. The scenery was lovely but I have never driven on a more difficult road! After three and half hours I was glad to get to the end of the park. We drove to a small holiday park and stayed in our campervan that night. It was act...