Cooey from Coogie! Have moved a few bays round from the lovely bondi, to a place called coogie. Its pretty here too and the hostel looks right out onto the beach, with balconies!! hee hee! who needs 5* when you have 10 bed dorms (with cockroaches in the toilets!). Seriously, its fab though. One of our first major 'near-miss incidents' occurred the other day. We did a really nice scenic walk from bondi round the headlands to coogie, but decided to tra...

Big Wave from Bondi!! Hello all! Well, On from Melbourne to Sydney, with the small matter of a 12 hour overnight bus journey in between - which, im proud to say was a breeze as i did my impression of a koala and slept most of the way! Arrived in the city and met Sonia (Stone) - how funny! Only Sonia could be the person i meet the other side of the world and it seems normal! Headed straight for the beachy areas to seek out some cheap accomodation....

WOW!!! I have just returned to Melbourne after an incredible time today! We set off in the wee hours of Saturday morning (very tired) to journy up the notorious Great Ocean Road. Weather wasnt really on our side but the scenery was stunning anyway. Bit of a dodgy hostel last night but today bought a whole bundle of jewels to make up for it! For starters we got our official first taste of awesome aussie heat and clear blue skies, saw the 12 apostles (se...

This is what Im going to see today!! Think it beats a 'regular saturday view'!! will tell you all about it soon! Hope everyone is well and smiley back home Oh gosh, forgot to say I saw KOALA'S AND KANGAROO'S yesterday!!! woo hoo!!! Love TT

G\'day All! Flew into Melbourne mid the biggest floods/storm they have had for 100 years!! Had to abort the landing cos lightening was striking around the runway, turbulance had the plane jumping all over the sky and the winds were gale fore+! Nice greeting. Anyway, were going to have to go up to sydney to land but in the end the storm passed and we landed gracefully! Came out of the airport and it was clear blue sky and sun shining! So strange!! We ...