Today was SO much busier in the city centre because it was a weekend. All the scenesters were out strutting their stuff, but we felt far cooler and headed to Glebe Market down the road. According to Lonely Planet, this place was aimed at 'dreadlocked, inner city hippies' - perfect. And it was AMAZING! Well, Claire loved it, Liam declared it to be a 'girly market' so we didn't spend too long there, but Claire spent an entire day's budget on a beautiful bag, then g...

Today is our anniversary! :) Yesterday began our spending spree at one of the many markets in Sydney - all of them are fantastic, but not so kind on our wallets. We first went to Paddy's market, which many Aussies consider to be more 'chinese' than Australian, and they wouldn't be too far off. Slap bang in the middle of Chinatown, this warehouse full of stalls (over 400 apparently) sells everything from Aussie AFL memorabilia to jewellery to socks to digeridos, ...

So here we are in Sydney! Hurrah! Back to the glorious city living.... currently in the rain. Monday was our flight out here, which went without a hitch. We're still aware that signs around Australia are atrocious, and we consequently got lost a fair few times (not because we can't read of course...) but eventually we did touchdown, then decided not to take 2 buses in the pouring rain to our hostel. Instead, we were hoarded into a mini bus with a load of other ba...