Sunday 8th November 2009 We left Sydney this morning at 7am destination Port Stephens. The bus journey was about 2 and a half hours from Sydney to Newcastle and we then had to catch a bus from Newcastle to Port Stephens. We arrived in Newcastle at around 9.30am and it was pissing it down not you want when you're arriving at a beach town. We then had to wait for over an hour for our connecting bus to Port Stephens. We arrived in Port Stephens round 11.15am b...

Thursday 5th November 2009 We arrived in Sydney from Melbourne this evening around 9pm cleared the airport very quickly our bags where even going around the carousel as we worked into baggage re-claim which is unheard our bags are usually the last!! It was a bit trickier trying to find the airport shuttle bus to take us to the hostel, no signs and no one on the information desk which is always helpful. I eventually ask a very grumpy lady on the car rental d...

This is Melbourne Part 2 for You All!! Saturday 31st October 2009, Melbourne-Yaraville Halloween!!! This morning we went to High Point shopping centre with Kirilee. We just had a wonder about the mall and bought a towel and a USB stick at BIG W! Similar too our BIG W that use to be. Oh by the way don't think we've said before but here in Australia they have Woolworths but here it's a supermarket-just a little bit of useless information for you!!! Whil...

Thursday 29th October 2009 This morning was an early start as we had to be in the city by 07.40am to be picked up by the tour company ready for our 2 day trip of the great ocean road. The morning didn't run very smoothly as we were a bit late leaving Kirrilee's house so there for we ended up missing the first train and had to wait for the next one which wasn't for another 20 minutes which would have meant we would be late for the pickup. So after several phon...

Hello to you all from Melbourne, This by the way will be 1 of 3 entries from Melbourne. There will be this one which is Melbourne part 1, The Great Ocean Road and Melbourne part 2. Saturday 24th October 2009, Melbourne-St Kilda After a broken night's sleep (drunken people in our room) we eventually lifted our heads and dressed at around 10am. 11am saw us eating a rather large breakfast courtesy of our hostel. It wasn't free but it was cheap for a full co...