Hello everybody I'm back in Sydney after a LOVELY time in Tasmania. No phones, internet or TV for most of the time and it was great. We started off with a small group of 8 people - I got picked up first, then Britta from Germany then we picked up six Japanese girls who appeared to be in one group, although it turned out that only two of them knew each other. We made a really great team. Everyone was really sweet and lovely and we all mucked in to do the chor...

Hello everybody On Monday I moved from Hervey Bay down to Brisbane by train - should have taken 3 hours but there was a derailment (not my train) and we all had to get on a bus a couple of stops before Brisbane as the track was blocked, so that added an hour to the journey. Never mind. I got to the hostel OK and into my room at about 11am, after which I crashed out for a while as I had had to get up at 3am (aaarrrgggghh) to get a cab to the bus station, follow...