Monday, November 8th After completing my tour of Fraser Island it was back to Hervey Bay to pick up the bulk of my luggage which I had left at the YHA. I was catching the 9:55pm Greyhound bus to Airlie Beach and I was not looking forward to my 12 hour journey. My sister had [...]
Monday, November 1st After the sand and surf of Byron Bay I wanted to get away and relax for a few days, so I decided to go to Murwillumbah which is about 1 hour by coach from Byron Bay. It is inland near Mt Warning and the Tweed River runs through the middle of the [...]
Saturday, October 16 Well, I felt sad at leaving Alice Springs for the second time. I was like this because I didn’t feel that I had seen everything. I will definitely go back sometime and see the MacDonnell Ranges. Having seen photographs of the areas where you can go, I feel as if I’ve missed [...]
Sunday, October 10th, cont. I could not believe that it could rain for so long in the desert but it never stopped raining until we reached Ayers Rock. It then stopped and the cloud started to break up. I thought I might get to see a glorious sunset yet. After checking in to our dormitory [...]
I have had a number of e-mails asking me how I have planned my trips and also how I came to choose the hostels that I did. Other people have asked me to rate the hostels and also let them know if there are any decent pubs nearby. So, I will backtrack and cover the [...]
October 5th, 1999 This was a day that I was looking forward to. I had booked a tour to the Barossa Valley, which is one of the wine growing areas in South Australia. The weather was very hot – don’t know what happened to the rain. I went with a company called Groovy Grape, who [...]
October 2nd, 1999 When I checked into my hotel the night before I was, to say the least, a little disappointed. The hotel was very dark and miserable. My room consisted of a chair, bed and a carpet that was full of cigarette burns. It also had a very damp fusty smell. As I’m sure [...]
September 30th, 1999 As I was waiting to be picked up by the tour bus, I reflected on my first few days in Australia. I was very concerned at first that I would be an old wrinkly in amongst a lot of young kids but that was not the case. There were people there a [...]
September 26th, 1999 Got up at 5.00am as the taxi was picking me up to take me to the airport at 5.30. Managed to be one of the first in the queue at Singapore Airlines check-in. Got checked in and then went back to the house of my friends who I stayed with the night [...]
