We arrived in Byron Bay at 11am after another 12 hour bus but the sun was shining so we were happy! We headed straight out to explore the town which is very small but quite lively with bars and restaurants all around, we went to a nice Mexican restaurant for lunch then headed to the beach for the afternoon. The beach was beautiful but it was so incredibly windy we felt like we were being given an exfoliating sand scrub the minute we lay down! We were completely c...

We got our first of many long overnight buses from Melbourne to Sydney - it was 12 hours from 8pm - 8am! Both of us were really dreading the journey but actually it was so much easier than we expected! The buses are quite spacious and comfortable with reclining chairs so it was pretty easy to fall asleep for most of the journey. We arrived in Sydney at 8am so weren't able to check in yet, we just dropped our bags off at the hostel and headed straight out to explo...

We didn't want to take our whole big backpacks with us to Ayers Rock so had to pack 5 days worth of stuff into our tiny 20 litre bags and leave our big bags at Tasha's house...impressively we both managed to do it and when we checked in for our flight both our bags together only weighed 6kg!! I am seriously getting so good at the whole packing light thing!! When we arrived at our accommodation for the night in Alice Springs it was like 5* luxury compared to the ...

We got to Melbourne early on Thursday morning and met Tasha at Southern Cross station. It was so exciting to see Tash and also really handy to have someone to help us find our way around straight away! We headed straight to Odette's friends (Jodie and Leila) house in St Kilda to drop our stuff off and then went back into Melbourne centre to find a travel agent to organise the rest of our trip up the East Coast! We ended up spending HOURS in the travel shop! Poor ...

We had two nights in Christchurch before our flight to Melbourne. We had been warned that there is not much to do there due to the damage from the Earthquake 3 years ago which was totally right! It's really sad to see such a derelict place that was clearly once a lively town. We were starving when we arrived so dumped our stuff and headed out to find lunch...this was not an easy task!! Every bar/cafe/restaurant sign we saw turned out to be deserted when we got to...