We were tying up the loose ends in Sydney last Monday (8/6/2009). Still staying in the Strand hotel on William St in Darlinghurst we decided to make the most of a beautifully sunny, but chilly Sydney morning and hit Bondi beach. A short hop from King’s Cross Rail Station to Bondi Junction and a skip …

So it’s been nearly a week outside the UK and that makes it time to update the blog, it feels like we’ve already been about a month in Sydney, amazing how quickly you’re sucked into the different ways of doing things. We’ve had a couple of days of sun which has been a welcome relief from the …

Where’s Wally (going)? Today we leave. Our tickets are booked, injections painfully and repeatedly administered, backpacking associations and frequent flyer programs applied to and accepted. It’s real. Here are the main dates and then I’ll fill in the details a bit further on: The Trip 1st June – …