We drove 700km back towards Sydeny today and stopped off at a motel just 1 hour outside Sydney. Only had three beds and I volunteered the floor since I was still ill (had a chest infection since Cairns which cannot seem to shake, been through 5 bottles of cough medicine already, I wonder if it is time to visit the old GP yet??? haha. Next day we arrived back in Sydney, just about as the car decided to chuck out a big ploom of blue smoke as we departed the motel,...

After spending night in Ricks hotel we went and searched a new hostel out and found the perfick place above a pub!! AWESOME. We headed out to Bondi beach on our first day in Sydney and spent a couple hours lazing around on the sands here. very Very busy beach but can see the appeal with Sydney when you have a vibrant city with beaches like this accessible just a stones throw away. We went and ventured out towards the Opera house a couple days later and pretty im...