Hey everyone Today was Australian Museum day! We were up and out pretty early to make sure we had the whole day at the museum, and combining our student/youth cards with a voucher, the entry fee wasn't too much. The museum had a special exhibition on, all the way from London in England, called Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The photos were amazing, with everything from an eerie close-up of an eagle looking at the camera, to a photo of a diver metres from a ...

Hey everyone Today we explored Sydney some more. At 6am, Christina was woken by the sound of a loud horn coming from miles away. It turned out to be the superliner, Queen Mary 2, which was docking in Sydney harbour for the day. We knew it was going to be in Sydney, as there had been road signs and posters around for days. Last time it was Sydney the QE2 arrived on the same day, and thousands of people went to see the ships side by side. This time it was only th...

Hey everyone Today we explored Sydney! After a nice long sleep, we got ready to have a good explore of the main sights of Sydney. However, before going on, we think we ought to explain what we mean by 'waking up early', as apparently we have gotten up early most days so far. In reality, 'early' doesn't mean 6am, or 7am, but rather somewhere between 8 and 9am (and more recently that's just because we haven't wanted to miss the free breakfast included in the Sing...

Today was our first day in Sydney! After a lengthy drive to the hostel, we finally arrived and stood outside the Ayslum. We went inside, checked in and were shown around. It's a tall, old townhouse converted into a hostel, decorated with lots of graffiti art. Our first impressions were that it was definitely not as clean as the Footprints Hostel in Singapore, but with every hostel so far we've not really known what to expect (and they've all been pretty differen...

Hey everyone Today was Raffles and flight day! We woke up early (really, again???) as we wanted to make the most of our last morning in Singapore. We had our lovely free breakfast of toast and tea and went straight to Raffles Hotel, and to the Raffles museum (free entry - hooray!). We had a good look around the small museum filled with memorabilia and small pieces of history. The gift shop was really nice too (Raffles playing cards, anyone?) and we could have b...