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...

We arrived into Sydney airport at 5:10am feeling pretty tired and Saz, after the fast food binge of the previous day, feeling very bloated and ill. She felt so bad that it took us close to 45 minutes to even reach baggage claim as her stomach cramps kept making her sit down. Our first impressions of Australia, were that it was a slightly odd place given that the customs checks were so strict. It was that bad, that we were scared into declaring some shells tha...