It's been a really long time since my last postcard but i am safe and well (so don't worry mum!) and i have changed into a gorgeous tanned beach babe, at a stratch of the imagination at least!I left Sydney a few weeks ago and headed up to Brisbane where i stayed with Cheryl and Richard. Saw the city during the day and then Lucy took me out for a wild night in Surfer's Paradise....it was quite possiblythe strangest night of my whole trip as the place w...

Yes yes, believe it or not that is actually me in the photo looking terrfiying as a corpse bride....i managed to scare everyone in my dorm by changing appearance so drastically but Brendan (aka the terrorist above) was actually probably the scariest of the lot!  This was all due to the Wake Up! halloween party on in Side Bar, my new favourite haunt (no pun intended!).  Somehow i always seem to either be hugging the toilet seat in there after a few too m...

Vanessa and Carole arrived here last week and have been keeping me entertained following Claire's departure - i was practically forced into a "Martini and Manicure" bar on Thursday night, and then they were both the cause of my downfall on Friday.  Much to the amusement of Brendan, the Irish guy in our dorm, I came staggering in in the early hours of Saturday, knocked over a cup of tea (which Carole was guilty of leaving there) and tried to con...

I am feeling that the website has been a little neglected of late so it is time to fill you all in on the latest adventures from the other sie of the world!   We flew to Sydney from Melbourne on Monday, with Dobbin hot on our tails two hours later and checked into the Pink House, as recommended by Alex of Cusco fame.  Sadly the thought that all fit men would follow the same hostel trail around the world was found not to be the case as our hostel is...

We have been in Melbourne for four nights now, and the weather is glorious, much to our great delight!!!  We seem to have booked to come here at the worst time possible as the AFL final (the biggest sporting event of the Aussie calendar) took place this weekend, right in the middle of our visit! Visited the Old Melbourne Gaol which was incredibly depressing, the Melbourne Zoo (great fun, Sarah's favourite animals were the wombat and the monkeys...