Port Macquarie, Coff's Harbour, Byron Bay and Burleigh Heads - 5th to 8th July After our day of wine tasting we were (somewhat surprisingly) up bright and early and on the road heading north in search of warmer climates. We were heading for Port Macquarie and decided to take the scenic drive to see some of the beautiful eastern coastline of Australia and catch our first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean. We decided to drive through Myall Lakes National Park and w...

Sydney, the Blue Mountains & Hunter Valley - 28th June to 4th July G'day mate! So here we are in Australia after 5 ½ months of touring the weird and wonderful that is Asia. We stepped off our plane at 6.40 am to be greeted by my (Sue's) parents who had just landed 1 hour before us having left Glasgow 1 ½ days earlier. It was a surreal moment seeing them standing in the arrivals hall of Sydney Airport but it was so good to see a couple of familiar faces a...