Up at 7am to be ready for my day trip to the Blue Mountains today! Well, really it was 7.15 after hitting snooze about three times! My guide Hayden was waiting at the front door when I got down there at ten to eight: ten minutes early I might add! I was first on the list so we had a chat about where I was from, he said Telford 'rang a bell', but I'm not quite sure how! Ended up telling him about John and Catlin running the half marathon, which resulted in talks o...

Well I was introduced to the Sydney's red light district last night, courtesy of Alison's brother! Met in a bar called Scary Canary next to Robert's hostel and waited until they'd done a free prize draw for $50 behind the bar: alas, we did not win! Walked through Hyde Park and down Oxford Street to get to the next place, may as well have been in London! Unfortunately though they ask for ID here a lot, so the fact that my ID was in my locker in the hostel and the ...

Well of course it's raining, I'm here! Just like my first day in Cape Town, my first day in Sydney was spent in the pouring rain! Just like in Cape Town I was forced into a museum to seek solace from the weather! To be fair though, it was The Australia Museum and was pretty impressive: skeletons, giant wombats, stuffed birds of every kind, and of course the obligatory screaming children that were on school holidays! Museums just wouldn't be the same if an 8 year ...

Drove over the Sydney Harbour Bridge at 10.30 this morning, pretty impressive, but after 10 hours on the coach the Victoria Falls wouldn't even have a thrilling effect on me... well maybe they would! The driver couldn't tell me where William Street was, nor could his coach driver friend who was a 'Sydney driver': hate to be on his coach! Eventually got the train to Kings Cross and walked from there: the Korean girl from the Coffs Harbour YHA decided to try and b...

Arrived in Coffs Harbour just 4 hours after leaving Byron Bay, not a bad journey, in fact I might go as far as to say I like coaches now. But I won't. The YHA had put on a shuttle for us to get to the hostel so I didn't have to trawl the numerous kilometres it appeared to be back to the place with my backpack on again, the backpack that doesn't seem to get lighter even though I throw out bits and bobs every time I open it! I was in a 6-bed dorm this time, 2 girl...