Sydney has 2 parts: 1) first arrived to Sydney from Brisbane, from there got the bus to Melbourne for 2days 2) back from Melbourne and wait for Mr Starkies arrival, another 2 days in Syd before going on our east coast road trip. 1)... I arrive into Sydney and take the hostel shuttle bus directly to the hostel. I check in to 'Xbase' which is a very popular hostel (but not the cleanest and nicest I have been to) and i meet my roomies before heading to Darling ...

A quick day in Singapore before I caught my connecting flight to Brisbane and I spent the day having a little shopping trip and doing a bit of clothes washing. The next day I was up and ready for my flight to Brisbane. Another amazing emirates flight with yummy food, lots of good movies and comfortable reclining chairs. I arrive into a very dark, gloomy and rainy Brisbane and question the taxi driver into how long it will be like this (very disappointed!) i am to...

A farewell to jonny and i set sail for Koh Phi Phi. Another ferry boat back to the mainland. This one, far far less luxurious than the previous one and its how I imagine illegal immigrants were smuggled across the sea. The room- a bare room with rugs on the floor and numbers along the walls. Each person was assigned a number and a rug, dimensions maybe 50cm by 125cm, and that's it. Rug number and 10 hours 7pm to 5am, good night. We arrive somewhere onto the coast...

Another high speed catamaran takes us from koh phangan to thailands scuba mekka koh tao. Our prayers are answered and the trip is not as bad as the first one, still extremely choppy and made us feel slightly queasy, but not as bad. We are greeted off the boat by a mass of people shouting and trying to convince us to go to their diving school. Luckily (tideous link) the cousin of a work friend of jonnys is a partner in a diving school and Jonny had arranged for us...

Following the genius idea to stay awake all night for our flight to Surat Thani... A killer journey was what lay ahead of us! Jonny and I wait dreary eyes in the airport, aimlessly wandering from check in to immigration to the gate where we collapse in a pile of tiredness and an ever present taste of Thai whiskey. The flight for me was simple, I fell asleep. But Jonny tells me it was a long drawn out journey with his inability to sleep on planes. Finally arriving...