WARBY The last time we spoke we had not long arrived at our accommodation with Hazel, Christian and the boys. Now we've been here almost a month! We've very lucky either staying in the sleepy wombat cottage, the tent and Hazel's friend Chris has kindly let us stay at his place.. very modern, tidy, homely eco build with a hot tub! We've had his place to ourselves for a long weekend when he's been in the city and stayed in his new converted build in his back gar...

As the cottage was occupied this weekend we decided to spend the weekend in the city of Melbourne. It couldn't be more perfectly timed as the Arnold Schwarzenegger sports expedition was on!! Saturday afternoon was spent sunning ourselves in 34 degree sun on St. Kilda Beach and watching the sun set with a cider! We spend most of the day at the expedition on Sunday picking up two bags worth of freebies and seeing the man himself - ARNIE! We then returned to St. Ki...

We flew to Ballina Byron Bay airport with the intention to stay for a week with our 2nd Helpx hosts Donna, her husband scott and thier two boys. Our accommodation was a one bedroom studio in their back garden which was lovely, the biggest bed we have ever seen. That night we all had tea together around their family table and got to know each other. The following morning we did our 4 hours work to earn our keep. I (Ryan) cleaning all the inside windows whilst Meg...

Sorry for the lack of blogs since Meg's birthday weekend as you can probably guess we have been on cloud 9 and enjoying ourselves too much to sit down at our laptop. It all began on Friday evening we finally went to Luna Park Sydney and had the time of our lives being big kids going on all of the rides. 2 for 1 tickets made it all that much better too! We got back just before mid-night and made Meg's birthday cake - Vanilla sponge with lots and lots of icing, w...

We arrived at castle cove greeted by our Chinese hosts. Very smiley but rubbish English, he showed us to our mini apartment and left us to it. We had to call them back because the apartment was dirty, so we went off and left them to clean it. When we came back with our food shop it was spotless and the outdoor pool on stilts overlooking sugar loaf bay was out of of this world. Very clean and refreshing! On Saturday Night we went to the Mardi Gras a gay and les...