Breakfree Bankstown International

... but then again, A thinks his feet smell normal and he's very wrong about that. We have our own sleeping bags and there's NO WAY his feet are ever coming into mine.

We slept OK, surprisingly well in fact, considering the chainsawing snore next to me. I got up and made a brew and took it back to the swag. The sky was already blue, suggesting a brighter day and we decided to drive the Tourist Drive past Bilpin, Mt Tomah, Mt Victoria and back to Penrith to ...

... 101 so we put our trust into TomTom.

We simply typed “Wheeny Creek” into the TomTom and it started to lead the way. We needed to stop for petrol and get some provisions as we basically we unprepared for the trip. After our stop we were on our way. TomTom telling us “turn left in 800metres” etc etc. I stupidly turned the volume up and couldn’t undo it so we had ...

At Julies place 10 hours before we leave for Japan. Julie is just getting out of bed now to start packing. My luggage weighs a tone and my carry on is huge ... just a little worried about getting it past security.
About 10 people have called... most of ...

... thats enough for me to say im not a fan of hostels!! I told you all before i left that i wasnt going to love sharing a room with loads of strangers...and i dont ..it sucks. ha ha. Especially you work friends... i told you all... im too spoilt!! ha ha!!
In this hostel for 3nights then not sure what im doing but if im sticking it out here i need a job ASAP ...

... avec deux Suisses francophones tres sympatques. Au cours des trois jours, nous avons explore les iles, principalement la spectaculaire White Haven Beach (qui a ete votee 2e plus belle plage au monde!).Nous avons aussi fait de la plongee dans les recifs de coraux ou nous avons pu observe des centaines de poissons mais egalement des tortues de mer et des raies. Les dauphins et les baleines se sont mis de la partie et nous avons pu les observer a maintes reprises du bateau.

Bref ces ...

... the cameras we decided a drink was in order. This soon turned into a full on pub crawl which we had a drink in each pub/bar and to Phil decided to 'Aquire' a coaster from each pub. By the end of the night he had 9 or 10 and a couple of places didnt have any coasters so we had been to a fair few places and drunk a fair few pints by this point so by midnight we called it a night and i headed back on my own the pleasant side of city that is Kings Cross and walked to my hostel being ...

... said food and sat down excited at the prospect when all of sudden 20 seagulls descended on my peaceful bench and started eyeing me up. I found this rather unsettling and did the most stupid and illogical thing imaginable... I gave a seagull a chip (in the vain hope it would go away - but no, what was I thinking?!). Following this cataclysmic error, another 20 seagulls descended on my location and I was rapidly turning into the pigeon lady from Mary Poppins ...

... 3D cinema, phew! After tiring ourselves out we decided to head to the Rocks area for a bite to eat and a few drinks. The Rocks is right beside Sydney Harbour bridge, it is a really funky area and when we turned up we were thrown right into the middle of Australian Fashion Week which happened to be taking place at the same time... we ate a yummy italian meal of pasta and pizza in between all of the stick thin models who were nibbling ...

We moved on to stay with more friends in Sydney on 8 March, had a couple of days with them before going to Merriwa, returning on 15 March. In common with everyone else they are brilliant hosts and have taken us to all sorts of interesting places. First to a lookout on North Head from where after a nice little bush track walk (impressively large spiders' webs everywhere) you get a wonderful view of South Head and the entrance to the harbour. Then we went to Manly beach ...

... dream but I always find them soulless myself and so did not spend all too long studying them. Some of the Dinosaur skeletons were as tall as a house and the reason why I wanted to visit the museum as I'd always wanted to see a full scale large dinosaur in the flesh so to speak or not so as the case may be. After another day just organising dull travel things and posting even more belongings back home it was now New Years Eve. Now ...