I had the worst flight ever from Melbs it flew out at midnight and arrived early hours the next day. I took the bus to the city and it was raining when I got here, but soon as I checked in I was up and in bed, was so tired, but didn't get much sleep as people were waking up and making noise, so after about 4 hours sleep I got up. Spent 3 days in Auckland and have to say I really like it here, feels like a place I could stay for a while, the people are lovely a...

Got into Melbs late evening, caught the skybus from the airport into the city station. then walked about 10mins to Nomads hostel. After checking I ponder on outside and then went to a supermarket to buy supplies. Melbs is very similar to London , has small streets and individual shops that reminded me of Carnaby street and parts of Camden. The city itself is much smaller than London but one of the largest in Oz, it is really busy too with trams, buses, cars e...

I flew from Brisbane to Sydney as it was cheaper than taking the coach believe it or not.Only too an hour an half i was in Sydney, i made my way to central where i met up with Jo from back home, was great to see her and spent a few days with her.The trains are starnage here they are on 3 floors, so weird and you can change the seats to face the other way.Then went and stayed with some other friends from back home Amy and Stephen and Stephen cousins Nat.Was just g...

Spent a week in Brisbane and stayed with Beech who i met out in Laos.Was lovely spending time in a house again, felt like being at home.Also his housemate had a cat that was named 'f*** bag' coz she was, she would just eat all teh time and was quite fat fr a kitten, but she was mental bouncing off the floor and running around like she was on drugs...was quite funny. Not funny when she was jumping on me at night though..:D, but she was cute.Took Bruce Freddy the c...

So after Nimbin we drove to Ipswich which was a good few hours drive but I really enjoyed driving out as it was like driving on country roads back home. we got into Ipswich just before dusk and tried to find somewhere to a park for the night, but couldn't see any rest areas, stumbled across a couple if ladies using the outside of local information centre as a workout place, one of the ladies mentioned that her parents ran a B&B so we tried there but no luc...