G'day all, just a very quick update to say that we have finally, finally sold the car! And this means that as of tomorrow we will be in New Zealand for a month, the land of sheep and mountains (sounding scarily like wales....) Also, a big apology for those who have left messages on the messageboard - yup, wev only just found it too, so to michelle and tim especially, HI!!!  Sydney has been wicked to wait out the carselling malarkey - we had a wicked day at ...

What a difference a week makes. We finished the great ocean road in magnificent style, going past the stunning twelve apostles and various limestone formations that are battered by the rough southern sea. Then started the day long slog up into adelaide! the area is really dry at the moment, and the landscape seemed to never alter as we wound our way up towards the more fertile vinyards of the area. After a hasty stopover, we eventually got into adelaide on a su...

We're having our last night in Sydney tonight before setting off on our own to head down to Melbourne where we will be meeting Mandy from home and hopefully completing our pilgramage to the neighbours set! We did actually watch it the other night - for those of you from home, all I can say is it all gets a tad weird! and my prophecies havent come true, yet...(housemates should know what i mean!) We did manage to fit a lot in whilst here in sydney, but it st...

We arrived in Australia in blistering heat, but a beautiful cloudless sky over a shimmering city - how poetic?! We settled in with relative in the suburbs (Chester Hill, near Parramatta to anyone in the area!), and celebrated Australia day with them on Friday! The city was amazing, packed with people dressed up in the flag etc. We spent the day exploring the rocks area, listening to some funky performers including a guy called Brett Hunt (I think) who was really ...