Oh my god I know, I know, its been absolutely ages since I wrote, oops sorry! Not really sure where to start... I guess at the beginning. Well we arrived in Sydney, via the overnight coach, sometime in the week before Xmas. We stayed in a hostel right in the city centre for 2 weeks. Its a cool city, lots going on - not as laid-back as Melbourne and much more tourists (it sometimes seems as there are no Australians in Sydney). The first week we saw a few sight...

I arrived in Melbourne two weeks ago totally knackered and pretty bewildered. It was strange to arrive somewhere hot and busy after cold and deserted New Zealand.I met up with Nikki again, who had already been here a week. Was kind of weird but not. Mostly it was just odd to meet in a strange city the other side of the world. We've been staying with some friends of Barbara and Judy (from San Fran); Maria and Peter. They are really sweet and have a lovely hous...

I'm now in lovely Melbourne, Australia but firstly I must write about the rest of my action-packed time in New Zealand!So, from Lake Taupo we went to River Valley which is out in the middle of nowhere. We stayed in a nice wooden hostel right at the bottom of the valley by the stream and a waterfall. Us four girls tried a yoga class there, which was the perfect setting for it, it wasn't a very strenuous class actually I think all of us managed to fall asle...

I am now in the beautiful but very rainy New Zealand. Arrived in Auckland on Saturday where Josee met me at the airport. We stayed in an absolutely huge hostel - with over 600 beds, a travel and job centre, bar, movie rooms, internet cafe and a shopping centre and food court downstairs. We kept getting lost on the 10 floors and v.confusing lifts.Our first night there we went out and partied, we went to the hostel's bar then stumbled down to some clubs by the ...

Well Im still in Fiji after extending my stay here. I am still travelling with Josee, the French-Canadian girl I met here. We continue to be totally overwelmed by the freindliness of the Fijin people, who are an interesting mix, but also v.divided, of Indo-Fijian (bought over from India to work on the sugar-cane farms) and the Indiginous people, who between them speak Hindi, Fijian and English. They are all so welcoming, everywhere we go we are showered with gree...