We slept well, had breakfast and packed.Out airport shuttle picked us up at 8am and took us to Alice springs airport.The flight back was shorter and with clear skies the whole way.It was amazing to see how the ground changed from bush, to huge red sand dunes to grey rock with lakes, to farmland then city.We bought a weekly travel pass, which including in and out of the airport cost $144!Eeeek! (that's our budget for the week gone) We got the train to town hall a...

We didn't sleep well; maybe because we weren't used to such a luxury bed and room or maybe because we haven't shared a bed since Melbourne!!! Garth woke me up singing a quite happy birthday at 6AM :( !!!!! Buy he had candles in a blueberry muffin. He tried to make me open his card but I wanted to go back to sleep, so waited until 7.30. Garth then showed me some fantastic birthday video messages which were really special. One from Bron and Everall, two from the 3...

One guy left at 2am very quietly, but the other 3 left at 4am very noisily. So had a broken nights sleep. Watched Spartacus whilst wasting breakfast and spent an hour in McDs for wifi. We decided we were too tired to drive up to Port Stephens, so drove around Newcastle and took a nice stroll along the beach. The sand was quite littered and the waves were angry and zig zagging around each other. There were a lot of surfers which we watched for a bit. We ate ...

We slept in until 8.30am!!! Due to the nights noisy activities. Had a quick breakfast and left. We stopped at Byron Beach which was beautiful then headed out on our 650km journey. Garth drove most of the way. We stopped at McDs again for lunch (!!!!!) and the sat nav went a bit crazy, but I drove through a really beautiful part of New South Wales up to Coffs Harbour! We arrived in Newcastle to the oldest hostel that we've been in, but there can't have been mo...

It was soooooo nice having our own room! We were woken a few times from noisy people walking past our window, but other than that it was amazing! It was hard getting up that day. With no free breakfast and our own room - it was especially hard. We are really tired and craving real food eg vegetables. I was especially struggling. I don't know whether it's because we've been travelling for so long, or if it's because we're on such a tiny budget, or if it's becaus...