We both had a good nights sleep which made a change! Anji was going shopping at Bondi Junction and offered to give us a lift down so that she could point out the closest bus stops etc to us on the way. We needed to do some food shopping so got ready and took her up on the offer and headed out to the Westfield Centre- it is huge!! We had a walk around the shops before going to do our weekly shop. All the hostels only had hobs which had limited what we could cook ...

We both got a reasonable amount of sleep on the overnight bus but it was pretty uncomfy as it was one of the older coaches. We begun to realise that we were getting closer to the city and then i was look out the window and saw the Sydney Harbour Bridge!! We drove towards it and as we went over it into the city Nick pointed out the Opera House! We couldn't believe it - we got that feeling like when we first saw manhatten whilst in the taxi from the airport - can...

We had to check out by 10am and weren't getting our bus to Sydney until 9pm. We put our bags into a store room and headed to the gorgeous Byron Bay beach. It was so hot that we didn't last that long sunbathing so went and got some lunch and had a look around the shops before going to pick up some food to cook for dinner. We headed back to the hostel and killed time on the internet and watching some of the weekends football and rugby matches before having some ...

We checked out early this morning and got a lift into Surfers to the transit centre. The guy that was giving us a lift didn't appear until 8am, we got to the transit centre just as our bus driver was getting ready to leave!! Cut it so fine, not like us at all. When the coach was arriving into Coolangatta we got amazing views all the way back along the east coast line - culd really clearly see Surfers Paradise, it was such an amazing view all along the coast, re...