Today was another sad day. Fiona was heading off to the Sheraton hotel to stay with her friend Alan so I'd finally lost all my girly playmates. She went off to drop her stuff off and go on to do the bridge climb. In the meantime, the boys and I trudged round trying to find another hostel. Cue pissed off with bag scenario again. The first one was too expensive so we ended up hiking about half an hour in the opposite direction to stay at Base hostel where some of t...

Well I've always thought that it's good to experience everything when abroad. One thing not on my list though was a&e. For a whole Sunday morning. I'm a great fan of Sunday mornings in bed - just not a hospital one! I had a funny heart turn thing in the night which started at about half 1 when I went to bed. It kept me awake on and off all night but I thought nothing of it until it was still going at about half 6 this morning. I laid in bed wondering when it...

This morning was the first day without the group and waking up knowing that was really strange! I had wifi at the hostel so I managed to find the coach song and play it to the girls on the bunk below me, much to their amusement. in the mean time, Damien and Chris had checked into the same hostel so came down to say hi to us. The weather was good so we decided to go exploring and have a look around. This should have been the point where I realised flip flops would...

After a late night last night, getting up and the bags to the coach by 5.50am was horrendous. We had time for breakfast and we were off by 6.30. I definitely won't miss the early starts. So today is the last day. The last day we'd all have breakfast together and be on the coach together. We had a long drive down to Sydney, but most of us were so tired we slept a lot of the way. We had a few stops on the way down, watched a film, swapped addresses and before we k...

As I'm writing this majorly retrospectively now (not lazy, just busy, ok maybe both), I forgot we went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday on the way to Byron Bay. I held a koala and had the most unflattering picture taken with her. My side bums on my cheeks have reappeared. Nice. They also stink but are mega fluffy and soft so I let her off. We saw crocs and kangaroos too. We went into the living area for kangaroos and got up close to feed them. Some were ...