Hi! Sorry for the delay in updating (and e-mailing, if I owe you one), but it's been an action-packed week and I've had very little internet time. First thing Monday morning I met the Autopia backpacker bus at the Pint on Punt pub near my hostel. The bus was a 21-seater from 1975 or so, and it towed a rickety old trailer containing all of our ba...

Back in Sydney. Stayed in a spot called Maze backpackers in the middle of town for a few nights. The room was like an oven. A midget German lad was staying in the bunk above me, but there was no ladder for him to get up or down, when he had to go to the toilet in the middle of the night he had to jump off the thing and land on the floor. Funny t...

We're currently staying at Maze backpackers hostel which is the biggest hostel I've stayed in so far housing something like 500 people. We checked in a couple of nights ago and last night they organised a pub crawl. Ended up wandering around in a mess by the stadium which it turns out is miles away from where we're staying. Pretty sure I passed ...

Day 1 It was time to leave the comfort of Kathleen's and head for the bright lights of Sydney. Taking our time to get up, do more laundry, pack and have breakfast we grabbed a lift to the station, said our goodbyes and departed for Central. On arriving, we had a short 3 block walk to our hostel on Pitt street; Nomads Maze backpackers, where we c...

Well my luck certainly ran out with the Greyhound Coaches last night. The coach left Byron Bay at 21.25 last night 30 minutes late. The driver was a miserable ******* ( only way to describe him ) So no one person to two seats have had on other legs of the journey. Anyway 13 hours and 3 stops later we arrive in Sydney. Was  noticeably cooler and ...

Well, I made it. Australia. Even after being here for a couple of days, the concept still seems so, I don't know, majestic. Spending a year in another country, traveling, meeting people, working, having fun, meeting God in new and unexpected ways... that was Australia conceptualized. And now the concept is in the "becoming" stage... so far, my v...

Arrived in Sydney at 8.30pm. I booked myself into Maze Backpackers in Chinatown with a private room. I was told just to sleep like a lord for the first night as the jet-lag will kick otherwise tomorrow...........I thought about it for 3 seconds and then decided that was a stupid idea and I should go out and get wrecked! I went to an Irish Bar (B...

Up at 4 am for my taxi. My driver was a lovely guy called Loveleen. He was right near the beginning of a twelve hour shift, he does that twice a week. I arrived at Sydney early, and checked into my hostel which turned out to be huge. Like Massive I never knew there were backpacking places that big. Anyhow I soon headed out the door to check out ...

'gooday Mate' how you going?? that's the official greeting whether it be daybreak, afternoon(avo)or past sunset! My watch shows an early morning, and i'm raring to GO despite the interrupted sleep - a couple's attempt to...shall we say 'wake the entire maze backpacker's hostel'. just my luck however, that the 'on heat' pair were STUCK RIGHT NEXT...

Back to Sydney after an amazing weekend in the Blue Mountains, and slightly depressed. Our cell at Nomads Maze did nothing to help the funk, but we moved to 790 on George, slightly more up to par, on Tuesday morning. Here we met Meghan, the 4th in our 4-bed dorm. To make a long story short - freakshow! I woke one morning to her in her underwear,...