...and finally back to bonny Sydney for the fifth and last time We had a couple of days before our flights onto New Zealand so i spent this time making sure i was organised, being even more ruthless with my packing, freeing up some space so i could buy a couple of Australian hoodies for New Zealand, wondering around the city and harbour one last time, and saying good bye to friends i had met in Sydney. Bye Bye Australia!!

I've just descovered these we face thingys so i thought i'd give y'all a big cheesy grin!After our great week in Perth we had to fly to Melbourne in order to get our onward flight to Tasmania..aha..ha..ha! As i hadn't really done the hostel thing in Melbourne when i'd been there before we decided to spend a couple of days down in St. Kilda the beach town. We stayed in a hostel called base backpackers in the 'girls only sanctuary' whic...

We flew into Perth on a nerve racking flight on Friday 13th (ek!) This was quite a long flight of about 5 hours and we had to take our watches back 3 hours. The weather was lovely and warm here and we checked into i hostel called the Billabong which was more like a resort than a hostel with a pool and everything! We went up the coast a wee bit to a large beach called Scarbourgh (it was a touch nicer than the one back in blighty) and apparently was a bit of a surf...

I headed back to Sydney to scoop my friend Carley (see piccy) off her flight from the UK. She spent the next few days recovering from her jet lag so we spent this time staying in Sydney city centre while i pottered around organising our ongoing flight itinery and sending a parcel back to the UK.  We took a day trip down to Corulla beach in an area south of Sydney called 'Sutherlandshire' known to locals as '...

I took a coach to Melbourne during the day so i could hop off and see a bit of Canberra en route.  I managed to walk down top one of the main round abouts and get some photos of the (very symetrical) layout of the city. The people seemed very friendly there but the streets were very quiet given that this was a capital city!On to Melbourne where i spent the next two months working. I initially spent the first two weeks living in a district called Fitzroy nort...