Archive for May, 2009

  • Bondi Rescue!

    Once I’d had enough of the city I took the bus to Bondi to stay in Surfside Backpackers. The great thing about staying in Bondi is that you have the best of both worlds- you can go to the beach but you can also take a 30 minute bus ride into the city. And it doesn’t have the problem of having ...

  • Sydney in a Day (It’ll Cost You Nothing)

    It’s reasonably cheap to get from Sydney airport to the centre- I took the Skytrain which cost $15 one way but you can get a taxi quite cheaply too. I was staying at Base which is a few steps from the Town Hall and probably the most central hostel. Base as it turns out is a chain of hostels, and...

  • Day 3: Kings Canyon and Heart Attack Hill

    If enough people haven't already died from climbing Uluru, you can also have the opportunity to hit the bucket on Heart Attack Hill. We had to start the Kings Canyon walk very early in the morning to avoid the sizzling heat of the afternoon, and to get to the top you must climb this hill, which in...

  • Big Rock Tour: To climb or not to climb?

    Today was Big Rock day. A day devoted entirely to Uluru. At the ungodly hour of 4am we all packed away our sleeping bags and stumbled around in the dark to the bus to go and watch the sunrise over Uluru. Although not as mesmerising as the sunset because essentially it just gets lighter and lighter, ...

  • Big Rock Tour: Sunsets and flies!

    At 6am, with a hangover from hell after my St Paddy's Day shennanigans, I jumped aboard the Adventure Tours Bus. People tend to think that Alice Springs is somehow quite close to the big rock, like how Americans think London is somehow close to Manchester, but in fact it takes several hours on a b...

  • St Paddy’s Day in Alice Springs

    I knew I was going to like Alice Springs. I expected it to be like going back 50 years, with crocodile Dundee walking through a set of swing doors wearing a cork hat and starting a bar fight. I wanted to see the real outback- small town Australia complete with hay-chewing cowboys. I flew into Ali...

  • The Best Places To Get Wasted in Australia

    Cheeky Monkeys, Byron Bay- Wherever you go in Australia you'll always hear of this bar. Where else can you dance on the tables, see people playing twister in their underwear and win prizes by attaching clothes pegs to your face. And make sure you get a flashing cup. The Woolshed, Cairns- The ...

  • 6 random things I have noticed about Australia

    Although Australia is an English speaking country it is by far the most random country I have ever been to: 1. They are obsessed with meat pies. Everywhere you go they have meat pies on the menu- it's like they think it's a traditional English thing to eat pie, but we don't have nearly as much pi...

  • 10 Ways to Save Money for more Booze

    Don't buy the cold drinks from the fridges in Oz, they're twice the price as the ones on the aisles Only buy the home brand food in Woolworths It's all about the free coupons you receive in the hostels- go on a pub crawl with all the coupons you have Stick to a diet of 5o cent noodles til...

  • Goon! Goon!

    The most important thing I'm going to tell you about, and the main theme of this blog, is goon. Goon is a 4 litre boxed wine and extremely cheap- around 9 to 15 dollars for the entire carton. You'll see it everywhere you go; forget Ayers Rock, forget the Kangaroo, forget Kylie's backside, Goon...