On yet another bus. Poor Marike - who has stayed in Sydney - had to get up at 6.00am to help carry my backpack after my tumble down a mountain. My foot is huge and it's gone black and I'm not a happy bunny about it. My poorly foot - and the debacle that led to my injury - has caused much hilarity wherever we've gone. Thankfully Emma and Helen both studied some sort of physical activity course at uni so they're both clued-up on strapping my foot with ice and a...

Well here we are then. In four days I can confidently say that me and three girls from the bus have managed to cram in as much as there was to see in Sydney. We wandered around Sydney Harbour and over the Bridge. We picnicked in the Botanical Gardens and went to see the Rocks Markets. We did Bondi and Manly (both in one day no less) and spent the day at the Blue Mountains. Each day has been filled with complete nonsense (as is typical for Kate's world to...

We left Jindebyne vowing to go on some sort of detox or drinking amnesty and stopped in Canderra on the wat to Sydney. We saw the Parliament Houses (old and new) and the "Tent Embassy". This is an aboriginal protest which is literally a tent outside Parliament House, outside which is a fire that was lit 30 years ago and has been maintained as part of the fight to gain recognition for aboriginal land-rights etc. We saw the War Memorial and then had a long, bori...

Well we woke up - late - feeling a bit sorry for ourselves and carried on through the Snowy Mountains and along the Snowy River. Still feeling a bit tiddly from the night before we stopped to help an elderly couple who'd broken down at the side of the road and ended up driving the ladt into the nearest town for a garage. Our new-found friend - Daphne - then had to endure an hour's drive with a group of half-dead backpackers demanding that she had her photgraph ...

Right then. The Oz Bus left Melbourne and moved towards Sydney via Wilson's Promontory, through Foster and into Snowy River Country. We drove through the Tarra Valley and walked down to the river through a cool-tempered rainforest that was full of more blackened trees. From there we walked along a stretch of a 90mile beach and oninto the Snowy Mountain range - and that was just the morning!! The bus was friendly enough but nobody had really spoken much to eac...