After leaving sydney for the second time we headed up the east coast to a place called Wamberal to stay with some people that we met in Peru. We ended up staying with them for 6 days - they were really lovely and it was so nice to stay in such a lovely home. We visited their local beach and their local town as well as a place called the entracnce which is where three lakes join the ocean and there are lots of peilcans - we watched them being fed and overindulged ...

After having spent an hour trying to get out of the city centre in our hire car, and 3 more hours on the motorway we finally made it to Canberra on time to visit the Australian parliament and Royal Mint. We were advised not to bother going to Canberra but we wanted to see it for ourselves and make our own judgement. It is one of the only 4 planned cities in the world and we were quite amazed at how modern the parliament was and also how accessible it was. We were...

After Melbourne we headed down to Hobart for a couple of days. We were not expecting it to be as cold as it was - I know it is their winter but wow it was so cold. Nic and I had all of our layers on and we were still freezing. We only had one full day on the island and we really wanted to visit port Arthur (a site where the convicts used to be sent to jail - what an exciting day hey)- we had met a guy on the bus from the airport to the hostel so decided to all h...

We had the most amazing time in Melbourne. We spent the weekend with our friend Kane and his family- they were honestly the loveliest people ever and we felt so spoilt. Kane took us around everywhere- it was very handy to be shown around by a local, and it was great to experience the true Aussie suburbia. There were lots of highlights to our weekend in Melbourne. It is a really nice city and has lots to do if you know where to go. On our first evening there we...

We had a four day rock and canyon trip in the outback. it was a completely different experience to an yting we have done so far. The outback is so red and there are so many flies - our head nets that Nic loves were just so hand, I dont think I would have got off of the bus without mine. We saw Ayres rock at sunset and sunrise and went on a base walk around it to see how big it really was. There is also a set of huge rocks not far from Ayers rock called the O...