Hello....As we have been so so busy I am going to briefly let you know what we have been up to and complete our blog properly on my return ready to print with pictures and minus spelling mistakes that there must be tons of! We safely got to New Zealand and were gret and very well looked after and fed by Caroline and Tim! We saw lots of the North Island over the 5 days we were there! Auckland harbor, the ice bar, walking shell beaches, shopping at bottony bay, un...

We got the bus to coogee beach which was wonderful! We were very lucky with the sun and had both caught it by the end of the day. We then walked to Cloverly beach, Bronte beach and Tamarama beach! All had there advantages, some were better for children, some had huge waves and surfing would have been good and others had pools on them where you could swim. We also walked to Bondi beach which was much busier than when we had previously visited. We had a fab packed ...

We had a wonderful nighst sleep, Ollie woke us with a "wakey, wakey, rise and shiine!" We had breakfast and made way to Circular Quay bus terminal where we got a train to bondi junction and then a bus to bondi beach. It was really quiet which we had not expected and we sat down and went in the sea etc, then it started to rain! We took cover and the rain had ruined our plans to walk to Coogi beach. We got a long bus journey back to Circular Quay and did ...

After a small lay in we got a ferry to Manly. The weather was lovely! We both loved Manly and have decided if we move to Sydney we would live there! Luke, Ollie and Joe hired a surf board, they gave Luke a lesson and Luke loved it! The water was freezing! We sunbathed and had fish and chips. We then had the most wonderful ice creams and went to Shelly beach which was not as nice as Manly beach but still nice. We then had tea at the hostel. A really chilled out da...

We had an extremely early rise today, in order to make trains to get the the Blue Mountains. It is the same distance from Leicester to Leeds but its still classified as Sydney! We had brought a day pass for a hop on hop off bus with 29 stops. The views were amazing - so big and beautiful. We realised how easy it would be for people to get lost which many have, Views went on for miles as its so big, together there are 4 national parks. The people were rather hilly...