Palm Beach and Manly

Hey everyone!

Let me update you on the past couple of days.

I got up really early on Monday morning to go to Palm Beach which is where Home and Away is filmed (well, the beach scenes anyway) to find that the sky was grey and it was raining. Great. Decided that Home and Away was far too important too miss and a little bit of rain was not going to stop me, so off i went on a mammoth journey - bus from bondi into city, train to main bus station, bus to palm beach. I left the hostel at 8.30 and arrived at 12. Stupidly long journey! Anyway, by the time i reached palm beach (which is north of Sydney) the sun was shining once again . I latched myself onto a couple of people who were also home and away fans which was good cause meant i had someone to take pictures of me outside the surf club (H&A fans will understand). Very exciting. Spent a few hours on the beach then headed back to the city where i wandered around Darling Harbour again and had a walk around a shopping mall (but bought nothing - this backpacking thing is depressing - i hate being on a budget!)

At night, me, kate and kate decided we were going to get glammed up (as much as possible with limited clothing) and hit the bars. Met some really funny Aussies and randomly bumped into one of my college friends from London (Priya) which was freaky, but really nice. After a few too many gin and tonics we headed back to the hostel around 3am - was a great nite!

Today (wednesday) i woke up to 3 new people having had moved into our dorms. One of them was travelling on her own and decided that she was going to latch onto me for the day, which i was really not impressed about cause i quite like doing my own thing during the day, but i felt sorry for her, cause it is hard your first day travelling. As you can see, i'm getting quite into this whole 'travelling alone' thing.

We went to Manly beach today. To get there you have to take a ferry from Circular Quay (where the Opera house and sydney harbour bridge is) for about 30 mins. Found Manly to be a bit of a waste of time...just like Bondi beach but much tackier, but we did have nice fish and chips by the sea, which was a bonus. Think Manly is the first place in sydney i haven't been that impressed with, but the rest of the city is amazing.

Just chilling out tonight with kate and kate cause they are leaving tomorrow for Melbounre. I'm going to miss them, and its annoying cause they have a spare seat in their car and asked me along, but its in the opposite direction to which i'm travelling. C'est la vie.

Tomorrow i'm doing a whole day trip to a widlife centre, winery, the olympic stadium, and the famous Blue Mountains, which I am really excited about. Not looking forward to the 7am pick up from bondi though!

Until next time
xxx