We had a nice lie in today for a change and got up at about 10am. We decided to pay the extra and stay in the double room again tonight instead of getting beds in a dorm room as we like having our own space! Dave went off to tell reception this and to pay the 78 dollars for the room but when he got there they said we had already paid. They must have got confused, thinking we had paid for it yesterday when we paid for our trip which was very lucky for us! After ...

After a very long bus journey we arrived into Byron Bay at about 9.30am feeling cramped and tired. We were met off the bus by someone from the hostel where we had booked to stay which was nice as we didn't fancy trekking anywhere with our bags. We had booked into a double room as a treat for Dave's birthday and also to allow us to chill out and recover from the bus journey. The hostel turned out to be really nice as our room and another 4 bed dorm were in their o...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE! As you can see, today was Dave's birthday and to celebrate we decided to go on a trip into the Blue Mountains near Sydney. We arranged to be picked up by the tour at 7:40am just up the road from where we were staying and accordingly had set the alarm to go off at 7am. However unfortunately the clock was still set to Singapore time meaning the alarm never actuall went off and at 7:30am when I was luckily woken up by some noise outside we ha...

Today we decided to try to get some pictures of the sights Sydney has to offer, so after a fairly early breakfast, we headed back towards the harbour, unfortunately the weather was a little overcast, so the pictures weren't quite as good as we had hoped but never mind. First we had a quick look round the botanical gardens again ending up at Macquerie point, where you can get the best views of the Opera house and bridge. We then dodged our way past all the Sydn...

Sarah woke up this morning fairly early and the weather suggested that it was going to be another perfect day, however by the time I had got up, the clouds had started rolling in and any chance of getting some good pictures of the Opera house seemed to disappear. So we decided to spend the day running erands and doing a little shopping. We first set off in search of central station in order to sort out our 10,000 km Greyhound bus pass we had bought back in Eng...