We arrived in Alice Springs and we were greeted by the gorgeous sunshine. A big change from Adelaide. Alice Springs is in the middle of the desert and the airport was quite small and already we could see a big difference from the city airports we'd recently been to; lots of open space and brown dried up grass and plants....just what we would expect from the desert. And the heat was definitely a welcome change! Still carrying our huge umbrella which had come with ...

We still didn't really do much in our final month in Sydney. We were still working up until 21st August so we had a few drinks at a pub around the corner from where we worked after finishing that day. The weather was very nice for an Aussie summer - it was around 23 degrees but a bit overcast. Still we sat in the beer garden having a nice time with some friends we had made from work over the past 3 months. We stayed in that one bar for most of the night and o...

Well here we are at the end of our 2nd month in Sydney. We have jobs and a flat and are quite settled. We had a bit of a stressful time finding somewhere to live to begin with. We stayed in Wake Up hostel for the first 11 days, but got sick of sharing a 4 bed room with total strangers. Especially one of them cos he was a proper snorer and talked to himself when he was pottering around the room! Plus it was way too expensive to be living there for any length of t...

Kiwi Experience Day 19On our way to Kaikoura we signed up for our next activity - swimming with dolphins. I have always wanted to swim with dolphins so I was really excited! We checked into our hostel and hurried down to the office to get kitted out in our wetsuits. When we paid for our trip we were told that although they had had a few successful trips over the last few days, as dolphins are wild animals and we would be entering their natural habitat, they co...

Kiwi Experience Day 19On our way to Kaikoura we signed up for our next activity - swimming with dolphins. I have always wanted to swim with dolphins so I was really excited! We checked into our hostel and hurried down to the office to get kitted out in our wetsuits. When we paid for our trip we were told that although they had had a few successful trips over the last few days, as dolphins are wild animals and we would be entering their natural habitat, they co...