G'Day!! So we've come to the end of our first week of the road trip and are having a brilliant time despite the rain for the most part of this week!! The journey began with the terrifying experience of trying to get out of Sydney with it's maze of 1 way streets and heavy traffic but the wagon, by the name of Lou Carpenter, proved to drive like a dream and I don't think any of us want to go back to manual now!!! So we got to the Blue Mountains and stopped at Go...

Hello there... So we arrived back in Sydney to find it alot colder than it had been when we left and alot wetter than we hoped but no worries as there was lots of partying to be had. Mat turned 19 the day after we got back so the Shaw sisters cooked him up a feast of bangers and mash with chocolate mousse for pudding. We put the candles in the mash and they melted into it a little more than we intended, Doh! Still tasted fine though apparently! After, we went ou...

CRAB RACING!!!!!! Right so, monday night opened the eyes of Lucy, Harri and myself to an all new sporting event, Crab racing.Thinking we were going to sea about 3 humungous sea crabs race along an assault course or possibly there be nothing to do with real crabs at all, we were suprised to see a little cardboard circle beautifully decorated and a little tin in the middle containing 19 iddybiddy hermit crabs plus a beast!!! (The beast turned out to be really lazy...

Due to popular demand, here's our first week in sydney... First full day, obviously, we head for the beach, none other than Bondi itself will do to really introduce us to sydneys coast line, and it did not disappoint! However, I did make the mistake of going with debbies 'fool proof plan' of how to find the right bus to get there, and agreed to follow a group of 'beachy looking people'...this was a mistake. And we end up walking for miles through the botanical g...

Hello hello everyone, we are in sydney!!!! woooooooo Not done alot so far, still recovering from 'the night that never ends'i.e the plane journey where it was always nightime!!! Journey wasn't too bad at all, lots of food and a little wine. The first thing we did on arrival was have a cup of English tea!! haha Hostel is cleanish, the breakfast really is free and we are sharing a room with 2 swedish lads and a couple of girls but not sure where they're from. M...