Hi everybody! Last day in Australia today! Mixed feelings. Was almost balling to mum and dad yday about what on earth I'm gonna do when I get home. I have been waiting for this lightening to strike and everything to be sorted and nothing had struck but then just�today I was offered a job (well,kind of. very informally) here in Sydney in one of the local travel agents but I�have not got a visa or anything and am off to...

Hi!First of all, thank you for all the e-mails. I love getting them. Sometimes opening my e-mail is like going to the doormat on my birthday, thank you everyone and keep it up!Well I went to the Blue Mountains yesterday and they really are blue. Much bluer then it seems in the photo above. I took so many pics of my own to show you when I get home,sorry! The mountains are covered in eucalupts trees which produce eucalypt oil, this rises in to the air and then the ...

Hey. Well, guess what? I did it. . . I flew and major cliche alert but it was one of the best things I have ever done. Can not explain what it feels like floating up there above it all. It is so peaceful. The beach, Woolongong, where i did it was amazing. The views were gorgeous as I came down from 14000 ft!!!. Dan, my instructor, said he had only done a dive in one place prettier (and he has dived everywhere) and guess where the prettiest is? Cairns. Ouch! But I...

Hi! Got to Sydney ok. Have not seen a lot yet but have had a quick peek at the Harbour bridge and Opera House. Impressive and that is when it hit me, that I am on the other side of the world! The Opera House is not as white- more a dirty white- or as big as I thought- though it probably seemed smaller because of the gigantic cruise liner parked to the side of it. The lifeboats were the size of small ferries. Later in the week, I am hoping to do a bridge climb w...