G'day. Today we had to get up early for our flight from Sydney to Melbourne at 7.15am. Flight was on time and we arrived in Melbourne at 8.45. Thinking it would be a good idea to get a taxi to our hostel we jumped in one at the airport to find that no sooner had we left the airport we hit bad traffic for 45 minutes!!!! The taxi ride ended up costing us 60 dollars! Not good for us hard-up backpackers! We eventually arrived at our hostel and checked in; we then h...

G'day Today we had a fairly good lay-in, as we headed to the Botanical Gardens and sat in the park and watched the world go by!! There we were able to get a very good view of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge side by side! After this we headed down to Darling Harbour as we had a Whale watching Cruise at 1pm. We joined this and about an hour and a half into it we saw a family of whales and some dolphins swimming by the boat. Very stunning vie...

G'day Yesterday we got our wish of sunshine and therefore caught the bus to Palm Beach!!! Yay! As some of you might know this is where Home and Away is filmed (or some of it anyway). Here we saw the Surf Club - the famous walk way down to the beach plus the fence and green!! lol We layed on the famous beach for a bit, but unfortunately there was no filming that day but were told it was going to happen the next day - gutted!! We had great fun watching Home and Aw...

G'day. Since we wrote last we have been very busy.... We arrived in Sydney on Friday afternoon - 37 degrees!!! We said goodbye to our tour mates and jumped in a taxi to find our hostel called Wake Up. After 5 minutes, the taxi driver stopped the cab and said we were at the hostel- neither of us could see it...but he kept saying it was just behind a shop. In the end we got out and paid only to find that the hostel was still a 10 minute walk up the road- not a...

G'day. Sorry that we haven't updated this for a while - we have been really, really busy plus the internet costs loads in a lot of the places we have been staying!! Since we wrote last, we spent a couple of days relaxing in Surfers Paradise. We had a really nice hotel there! As we wrote last time, we were booked in to each do a Tiger Moth flight which loops the loop but unfortunately it was cancelled due to a faulty plane. We were both gutted- and had been so e...