21 December 2008 - a few days o the road!!

7th December

We were accompanied at breakfast by a coach load of Macedonia’s, one lady came and offered us some homemade baby cheese croissants which we gratefully accepted!! By 10am we left the rest area and headed off towards Sydney, we had planned to do the 900km over 2 days to break it up a bit.

At 1pm we pulled into a rest area to have lunch, then had coffee at the old town hall. We didn’t stop for long as we still had a way to go before reaching our target destination. We reached our chosen rest area at 5.30pm, we all read our books for a while then after dinner we sorted rucksack out in preparation for Sydney, as whilst we had been in the van we had put our clothes in boxes.

8th December

Today was spent mainly diving again but we made good time and reached Sydney at 2pm, Sarah and Dan navigated the roads impeccably and this time we didn’t get stung by the toll roads!!

We parked up right outside the YHA (youth hostel) where we had booked ourselves in for the next 2 wks, we don’t normally stay in one place for this long but the time has come to sell Rene (the van) so we had to give ourselves enough time, lets just hope she’s sold before we fly out on the 22nd!!

We settled in to our room, unfortunately they only had an 8 bedded dorm room left available so it wasn’t very private, but it would do. Sarah headed off down to explore the tow and beach area in Bondi, although we are in Sydney we are a few km east of the city centre.