Sydney.

Getting there..

So we set off on our mammoth journey on Thursday 20th Novemeber from Newcastle. At this point it was just about hitting home that in a matter of hours we were going to be in Australia and we were quite naive about the long ass journey ahead. My god was it long! Typical me setting the alarms off in security with my hair extentions and my ridiculous amount of jewelry. Great fun being searched in front of everyone and then there's Callum just giggling in the corner. 

We flew to London which was a baby flight compared to what was to come so we were still pretty hyper running around duty free and testing out every purfume until we smelt like insect repellent. 

The flight from London to Hong Kong was the absolute WORST. I mean, it was great service and great choice of movies and stuff but there definitely isn't enough space to try and sleep in a comfy position without having your face in the tv screen or your chin resting on your knees. We were pretty dead until they bought round the menus for breakfast. FUCKING STIR-FRY (which is my all time favourite thing in the world to eat) and it was 4am which made it even better. 

Hong Kong airport. What an interesting place. Evenmore interesting when you haven't slept in about 25 hours. It took us about two hours walking around in circles just to find a bottle of coke and you could tell the security and airport staff were looking at us and thinking "bloody useless tourists". 

The flight from Hong Kong to Sydney was another ball ache but we were so tired and our bums were still so numb from the last flight it seemed to go fairly quickly. 

We arrived in Sydney dead, smelly and really bloody hot. We got off the plane and the first Australian I came across was a very large, butch lady that snapped at me because my passport was shit basically. Great first impressions. 

Anyway, we hit Australia. TOUCHDOWN! 

Hostel life.

Hostels are great fun aren't they? 

You meet loads of weird and wonderful travelling a from all over the world. And if you're lucky you'll get some nice people to share your room with. If you're not you'll get some weirdos. We shared with a couple of French girls and one was really nice and the other was a total douche. And not a shower, showers are quite pleasant and keep themselves to themselves which this lass didn't. 

You tax your bed in hostels by sprawling all your shit all over the bed which everyone then knows that bed is taken. Simple right? Oh no, not this turd. I even said to her that i had the bunk underneath her but she persisted with sprawling her crap all over it. Yes I shared Callum's bed but it was still my bed with our stuff all over it. 

Other than some of the roomies the hostel was actually really snazzy with vintage chairs and sofas to chill on in the lobby and a bar next door that turned from restaurant to nightclub depending on what day it was. 

A couple days into our Sydney stay a couple of friends of ours arrived which was nice to have people we knew there, and then a couple more days our good friend Cat turned up. There was a little group of us which made going out for dinner and hanging out in the city pretty damn cool. It was Base hostel, totally recommend staying in a base hostel if you travel Australia. 

Big city life..

For a city, Sydney was pretty chilled. It had a nice atmosphere especially down at Darling Harbour. Every Saturday night they do a massive fireworks display over the water and it's probably the best display I've seen. 

We also had THE best steak ever in a restaurant called magarittaville. Heinz ketchup here is not good so always get BBQ sauce it's amazing. 

The traffic is a bit mental, everyone drives like they're in a car chase in some movie. Bit scary when you cross the road in a world of our own like I do 98.5% of the time. 

Everywhere is china town. Literally every two or three shops there is a Chinese restaurant or take away which was amazing because Asian food is my favourite but when trying to find an Indian one, you got no chance. 

But for a City Sydney is really nice, the botanic gardens are a must go and darling harbour and the Chinese Garden Of Friendship if you ever venture out to sydney. 

Bondi.. 

One of our days we went to the famous Bondi beach but typically this was the only day the weather was shit and I actually had 3 layers on. We also had our first ever taste of the famous backpackers drink, goon. 

Goon is basically a load of shitty cheap wine in a box that is made with fish eggs and shit but it's so cheap and isn't that bad if it's cold and mixed with something. But it's so cheap all the travellers drink it over here, I've heard the hangovers are pretty narley. 

We went paddling in the sea but it was pretty cold for me to go in but Callum and the two friends we were with braved it. A couple days before we went to bondi they had shut the beach off because apparenlty a great white shark got around the nets and into the area people would swim in. Pretty scary! The worst you'll come across on Bognor beach is a tesco shopping trolley or a syringe needle. We got it pretty easy I guess.