Australia

We landed in Sydney in May 2003. We were quite relieved to get off the plane as we didn't have the most smoothest of flights! Our landing was delayed because of bad weather and we had to go back out to sea to circle until the runway at Sydney was reopened. The turbulence was quite bad and our seat belts did come in use! Nevertheless we landed safely in the end.

Australian customs is quite strict with what you bring in and we had our polo mints confiscated, but we were sure that we would survive without them!!

We hadn't booked any accommodation in advance and found that we hadn't needed to. Sydney airport had what I would describe as an accommodation library. There were loads of advertisements for hostels and hotels. We chose our hostel and were picked up by them.

Our plan was to explore Sydney and then buy a camper van which we would use as accommodation and to eventually get us to Cairns.