We arrived late after our coach journey from Coff's Harbour, and we were greeted at our next hostel with a free upgrade to a nice king ensuite room (not bad considering we booked two dorm beds). The following day was spent exploring our surroundings, and were pleased to find a bit more on offer compared to Coff's Harbour, but it was still a nice laid back beach town. It boasted plenty of surf shops, cafe's and restaurants to choose from. At the weekend the place...

First stop - Tiverton Parkway... well... it wasn't supposed to be, but thats what you get for getting on the wrong train! Great Start! Back on board the right train and were on our way to London for an overnight stop before our early flight on route to Sydney. After 24 hours of travelling we were beyond tired so Maccy D's and an early night worked a treat! The first day in Sydney was a rather lazy one, we decided to have a stroll around Darling Harbour and poppe...

Coffs Habour After our long coach journey to Coffs Harbour we arrived at 5:30am, someone from the hostel was waiting at the station to pick us up so it wasn't long before we were back in the warm. Check in wasn't until 8am so we tried to get our heads down in the common room for a couple of hours. Once checked in we had a short power nap then headed down to the village to explore. Coffs Harbour was quite small with a very pretty harbour, fishing dock and a great...

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have now returned home. We hope to continue our travels in the near future. Thanks for all the messages, Ash & Aimee

After our 12 hour coach journey to Sydney we were eager to dump our bags and find somewhere nice to eat breakfast, luckily the hostel had a cafe so we ate there and decided what we would do for the rest of our day. The hostel runs city walks twice a week for free but as we'd already missed the departure time we decided to grab a map and venture off ourselves. We walked through the city until we came to Hyde Park and then the Botanical Gardens which were very pret...