Hello all, Just a very quick update as I think I have 6 minutes before the computer cuts me off. This is my last update from the buzzing Australian Capital and also will be my last from Oz for a few weeks because tomorrow I will be heading back to my second homeland of New Zealand (or Aotearoa if you want to be a bit Maori about it). I hope everyone had a good christmas, was probably more christmassy than mine as I spent the day on the roof getting very sun...

Hello at last dear readers!I did attempt to update this thing about a week ago, but the computer in the middle of nowhere, OK Mildura, decided that it didn't like that plan and kept cutting me off. As it is I now have a fair amount of catching up to do as a lot has happened in the 12 days since I last wrote an update.I will begin where I left off which is, I believe on the afternoon I left Sydney. Almost immediately after posting my last update, I walked, or ...

Hi people,amusingly my first entry from Sydney is now being followed by my last! After spending the weekend panicking about the job and accommodation situation I went to Travellers Contact Point this morning and within an hour I had got myself a job orange picking until Christmas out in the middle of nowhere. I also get a good deal on accommodation with transport to work and sunscreen thrown in! The catch? I have to be on a greyhound bus in 3 hours for the 16 hou...

Well hello there everyone, Just a quick word to let you all know that I have in fact arrived in Sydney and am still alive if not at all happy! There are more people in this city than there are in all of New Zealand and it feels weird to be in a city again when I've spent so long in small towns and pretty green places. Is also very hot. However, ironically this is a country that has had four years of drought and the day I arrive, what happens, why it rains ...