We had wanted to go straight up to Byron Bay when we left Sydney, but when we were booking the rest of our trip back at Christmas everything was fully booked at Byron over the Easter weekend, so we decided to stop off in Coffs Harbour on the way. We're travelling by coach now, as we've sold our car, so it was a long 11 hour drive up the coast to get to Coffs, with a couple of stops for lunch and to stretch our legs - the scenery was getting much greener, and the ...

We haven't been that busy during our last few days in Sydney as we'd already managed to do all of the touristy things that we wanted to do, and the weather hasn't been amazing as it's going into the Australian autumn now (thank goodness we're heading north where it should be warmer!). After the lovely weather at the weekend it decided to rain on Monday, so we got a few boring things done like washing and then went to a cafe for lunch to wait for some better weath...

The day after we went to Bondi had probably the clearest skies since we had arrived in Sydney, so we decided to visit the Sydney Tower Eye (the tallest building in the city) to get a birds eye view of the city and further afield. Our visit started with a 4D film off Sydney and the surrounding area, with great images complete with moving floors and smoke. We then got in a lift to go up to the observation deck, where we had some great views of the city. The sky was...

We had a busy few days earlier in the week, and some pretty rubbish weather to go with it, but we have finally managed to sell our car! It's a bit sad to say goodbye to our faithful friend Commodore Norrington, but when we leave Sydney next week we are travelling by coach so the time had come to pass him on to some other travellers. We started advertising it on the internet back in February, and even went round to loads of the hostels in our area with posters, bu...

We arrived in Sydney last Thursday, and we're having a really great time in the Harbour City so far. Our first day was pretty stressful, we drove down from the Blue Mountains and had a really relaxing trip, stopping off at Wentworth Falls for a last look at the beautiful scenery there, but things went a bit pear shaped once we got into the city. A 15 minute journey turned into an hour, we kept missing the turnings we needed to take and then got stuck in the traff...