Since the last blog, have continued to stay with different family and friends, meet their kids and have lots of barbies and pavlovas. My Aussie family are all excellent cooks! Been to Richmond, Mount Martha, Tecoma and lots of other places: have truly become a nomad. Then Simon (boyfriend) arrived a few weeks ago and we began travelling up the East Coast. He really wanted to see Sydney so we went back there, did the Coogee to Bondi Beach walk again, went to the ...

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii just me here now that Jess has gone home... Arrived in Oz just over 2 weeks ago so going to try and cram it all into one entry: First landed in Sydney and went to my hostel on Pitt St. Think I chose quite a good one coz although it was a bit dirty and gross, the people there were really nice. Stayed there for a couple of days and went out drinking and clubbing (oh have started drinking beer how horrific), walked around the botanical garde...