First day off work, finally gone and bought a guitar, although I am now back to being broke. Today was spent exploring as much of Surfers as humanly possibly in a day. First stop was the Retro Barbers that we passed every day going to work to get a cheeky hair cut, which to be fair was needed. Probably the coolest place i've ever stepped foot in. Retro was set up by two mates, Lee and some other guy, and every day one skateboards into work as the other walks in...

Been in Australia for almost 9 weeks and thought it would be a good idea to start a blog mainly for families sake but if anyone randomly spots this and picks up some useful tips - i'll try and make them useful, or learns from my mistakes, then it will all be worth it. I'll start from 9 weeks ago, 9th January 2011. Arriving in Sydney after over a day of flying was jet lag heaven so I just wanted to get a shower and collapse; had a weird moment of realization on ...