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2 years ago today I landed in Sydney after an epic road trip from Perth – Darwin. Finally arriving in the accidentally assumed capital of Australia was something I was uber stoked for – it’s iconic Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the legendary Bondi (which is a massive let down by the way!) are all [...]

After a couple of week on the back burner The Saturday Showcase is back! I know you’ve secretly missed it! This week it’s the ever patient an quick emailer Beverley from Pack Your Passport (yup once again I wasn’t that organised on my planning!) so without further pause I’ll introduce you to the lady herself… [...]

This week the news has been filled with A Level results. Thousands have passed and dream of heading to university, yet due to the frankly quite stupid rules on tuition fees (cheers Lib Dems!) there’s a massive oversubscription for places. Which means unis have their pick of the bunch and thousands will be left stuck [...]

The phrase goes “hindsight is a wonderful thing”. It’s very true. I shouldn’t have bought that. I shouldn’t have said this. The same is true of a one certain part of my Australian adventure. A part that is rather fundamental to the whole thing – my working holiday visa. Tweet

Over the last few weeks I’ve learnt alot about being a backpacker whose running low on funds. At one point I was nearly down to my final $1000. I simply forgot to check my bank balance and did alot of driving around to The Quikky Pro and Noosa which burnt a hole in my pocket. [...]

So last night over 100 bus touts, receptionists, pancake makers and all other manner of staff from Byrons hostels descended on Aquarius bar for an industry party. Tweet

Australia is a vast country covered by a variety of landscapes – from tropical rainforest and crystal white beaches to barren red soiled outback…and even snow capped mountains. And with a variety of landscape comes an equally diverse way of travelling across them. So this weeks Top Ten Tuesday features the Top 10 Ways to [...]

Life in Byron is pretty sweet these days. The suns still shinning, the surf still pumping and I’m still working. I have a paid job working for the infamous Cheeky Monkeys (alongside Nick, who’s helping me with this post), but it’s not the paid work that actually works out the bets for me. Sure the [...]

Following on from the Part one yesterday I continue with a few words of advice on planning your trip to Oz. In Part 2 I’m going to be bantering about BUDGETTING, INSURANCE and BANK ACCOUNTS. So lets get stuck in… Tweet

Well the last 24 hours in my world have been pretty freaking awesome :) Tweet

Yesterday marked another big milestone in my year down under – the halfway mark of my 12 month working holiday visa. And an occasion like that deserves a bit of a party! Tweet