Despite a slight delay with our Greyhound Bus, we arrived in Byron at about 10pm & headed straight to the Arts Factory Village. Through my contact working at British Balls in Sydney, I'd managed to score a great discount for us ($17 each a night instead of $28) so we'd booked our own 'teepee' hut for 7 nights. We'd heard great things about the Arts Factory, it was named one of the Top 10 hostels across whole of Oz so we were really excited...

Well we finally escaped the city that everyone appears to get trapped in & started on our journey of the East Coast of Oz. It was a great feeling to be 'travelling bums' once again, although the backpacks took a bit of getting used to again! Having booked a 4000km Greyhound Pass before we left UK, we had the freedom of just booking a new journey whenever we felt we'd spent enough time in a certain place & were ready to move on. We decided that...

After nearly missing our Bangkok - Singapore flight because our flight number & time had been changed without us being informed, I'm amazed to tell you that we did actually make it to Sydney in one piece and on time. However, that was after we endured a proper 'Home Alone' style sprint through Bangkok airport, with all of us just a little hungover & trying to run as fast as we could in flip-flops, with every item of our baggage strapped to our...