Hi all, It was a naughty journaey!! Leaving at 3pm meant that I couldn't sleep until around 9pm and due to stops every couple of hours, I hardly got any sleep. Needless to say, I was a bit of a wreck the following day! We arrived into Southern Cross Station, Melbourne at 5.15am and realising that hostels wouldn't yet be open, a two hour sleep followed, on the floor in the waiting room - proper tramp style. At 7am, we tried a few hostels but it wasn'...

The days following new year were pretty subdued for me to be fair. I was still pretty ruff from the bronchitis and the affects of the medicine. So the start of the year was pretty much resting watching England get spanked by the Ozzies in the Ashes!! The 2rd was a cool day though. Macca and I decided to walk down to the ground and see if we could obtain some tickets for the first day. Yeah right!! It didn't take us that long to ponder down to the ground and...

Hi all, Alice arrived on the 29th and we decided to head for China town and visit Paddies Markets. It was ruddlish.... I've never seen as much over priced tat in all my life. We all left pretty sharpish and Macca and Tom decided they were going to watch Bond. Becki and Alice went for a drink and I headed to the flat as I wasn't feeling very well. That night the girls got dolled up and went out for the night and the lad stayed in and watched a DVD. The...

Hi all, We were dropped at Central Station after the all night journey and when we were dropped off it was raining... the wind was blowing... and there was brick buildings everywhere. It could have been London! However, it was time to make like a horse d*ck and hit the road! After nearly slipping and breaking my neck on the pavement in the rain (damn flip-flops!) we called Fran, the landlady who had agreed to meet us at the Flat in Kings Cross at 11.45am. It wa...

Hi all, Having now officially left Queensland, we lost yet another hour of our lives, making us now 11hrs ahead of the UK. We arrived in Byron Bay early evening and got checked into the most expensive hostel yet ($30 a night!), which was actually really nice and took an immediate liking to the place. Having had a restrained past few nights and after bumping into a few old faces from other stops (Clare and Sam from Magnetic Island and Helen from Airlie Beach), w...