After a short hop over on the plane I arrived in Hobart on the 17th Jan. I paid for a shuttle bus from the airport as it was raining and got dropped right at the hostel door, a little place in the city centre. After dumping my bags I went for a wander to find a bottleshop and didnt have much luck as my surroundings were all new to me. I ended up walking about a half hour into North Hobart before I found one, thanks to the help of some of the locals. Being Sunday ...

Thought I'd wrap up Melbourne in one blog entry..After spending 15 hours on a coach on the way down to Melbourne from Wollongong I was pretty shattered but didnt feel at all like sleeping as I was excited to have arrived! Like most cities, Melbourne's layout is pretty grid-like so it wasnt too much trouble finding the hostel, a little place called Elizabeth hostel. The reception is handily situated in the convenience store right next door. In terms of facilities ...

Blog time...After leaving Byron Bay, Ciara and I arrived in Sydney tired and weary after 10 hours or so on the coach. We met up with Ciara's friend Jennie who had travelled an equally long distance up from Melbourne. Together we caught the train out of Sydney Central and up to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, about a 2 hour journey from Sydney. It didnt take long to realise why so many people vist the area. Almost as soon as we'd left the station and the train sta...

Well, it looks like i have 3 weeks worth of stuff to write up using a keyboard that has the letters worn off the keys so here goes..On arriving in Brisbane airport and having had NO sleep on the flight in (I stayed awake trying to crack all 26 levels of 'Caveman', one of the games on the inflight menu - managed it too :)) we sailed through customs which was surprisingly easy considering how many people had told us Oz customs were pretty tight. We hopped on a bus ...

I'm going to try and make this entry concise and to the point as internet time costs more here in Oz! From Mersing we travelled down to Singapore and arrived a little soggy and tired from the rainy early morning boat journey. The air conditioning on the coach was sub zero and we had take out our hoodies to warm up! We arrived in Jota Bahru bus station where we had to swap coaches, we then passed through Malaysian customs, got our passports stamped before swapping...