Where better place to be than Sydney for Christmas and New Year? We stayed in 5 star luxury about 30 mins outside the centre (well it is Christmas) in a place called Parramatta which apparnatly means "the place where the eels sleep". After checking the room thoroughly and finding no sign of the slippery devils, we settled in quite nicely and set off to book a Christmas Dinner-realizing on Christmas Eve we had left it a little late....however, we stumble...

To ease us gentley into a days walking we decided to visit Scenic World. Upon buying the Scenic Pass we were ushered on to the railway - which just happens to be the steepest in the world, degrees I think !!! We weren't even strapped in and got sat at the front. It was very steep but also quite short. At the bottom we did the boardwalk which decribed the mining activity in that area. Then it was back to the top on the cableway before taking the skyway (see pi...

Does anyone remember I went through a hippy phase? Well Byron Bay brought it all back.....weren't the clothes terrible?! And the smell of dreadlocks...Heaving with backpackers (whom I have come to despise-I have a suitcase with wheels so I am not one), Byron Bay is the place to come to have your Chakras massaged and you Auras read......or in my case the place to twist your ankle stepping off the pavement in flip flops. It was so painful I thought I would actu...