Goodbye Australia We have had an amazing time in Australia and think that we have done our best to explore this vast continent in the time we had available. Of course we have only seen parts of it but in our minds eye it has totally lived up to our expectations and at times, exceeded them. It is inevitable that we should be asked to compare it to New Zealand but that is impossible as, although there are some similarities as they share a region within the souther...

Campervan Trip 1 'Byron Bay' (Gold Coast) 6.30am start to pick up the motor home but just as well as we didn't get on the road until a few hours later and somehow managed to find ourselves back in the city during rush hour - Sue willing to take blame as navigator! Although our road trip to Cairns takes us north along the Sunshine coast we had decided to first travel south along the gold coast as we were keen to visit Byron Bay. Made a stop at Surfers Paradise ...

Sydney 4 Had a seaplane flight booked for the following morning so made our way to Circular Quay to catch a ferry to the sea plane terminal in Rose Bay. Arrived early so went for a stroll across the park to the tennis club and had a coffee in a fab café overlooking the bay. Boarded the sea plane and took off for most proved to be a most fantastic flight taking in the coastline to Bondi beach as well as the harbour with an amazing and different perspective of ...

Great night last night but today Tom was signed up to do the Sydney bridge walk and in order to do this he would need to pass a breathalyser test….honestly! He sauntered off late morning to complete his Harbour Bridge walk having had 2-3 cups of tea/coffee and plenty of water, whilst Sue went shopping! Tom passed the breathalyser and although unsure about having to strip down to his undies to don the obligatory onesie he really did enjoy the bridge walk. Howeve...

Arrived in Sydney (gained 2 hours) - cloudy but warm and as too early to check in we took a stroll down to the harbour and opera house area and then opted for a Hop on /off city tour to get our bearings. Returned to the hotel but unfortunately our room looked out onto a brick wall and was really quite dark and depressing - Tom not happy! After some discussion we were allocated a nice studio apartment room on the 13th floor with a small balcony and complimentary ...