We hate buses

What a rubbish day. 13 hours of boring bumpy uncomfiness but we've arrived in Sydney finally! We checked out earlier than planned mainly because our room mates came back at 4:30am and 5:30am and they made barely any noise so we didn't want to make too much either. Instead we took all our belongings outside the room and sorted them all out there. Leaving early did mean time for our morning latte, we've become a bit obsessed with lattes at the moment and today is a day when you definitely need it! The bus came early so we were able to get on and wait on board. We didn't have a stop until about 5 hours in so that was a bit annoying and even though we were told we were allowed to bring cold drinks back on my milkshake wasn't allowed by the new driver we now had so I had to drink it all in about a minute. One great blessing was the wifi for once worked on the bus. This meant we were able to kill time watching episodes of a programme on YouTube and listening to music, talking to people or general web surfing. I had a headache the whole way so I didn't feel up to starting my new book but Nick read for quite a bit of the journey while I tried to sleep. We had another break at about 8pm to have some food except most of what the cafe cooked we weren't able to have as it took too long to make. This was quite annoying when the driver knew this and had rung ahead to order a nice casserole to be made for him. We had some food and continued on our super long excursion. Finally we made it! It felt like a lifetime but we arrived in Sydney at 11:30pm having left at 10:30am. Our hostel wasn't too far away luckily so we walked there. We saw many homeless people camping in a park and an ambulance treating a man who had been assaulted so it was a little bit of a nervous walk. When we arrived at the hostel they had about 10 police officers in there as it turns out the guy who was assaulted was attacked by someone staying at our hostel, yay. Luckily there's 24 hour security and you need a key card to get in. For now we've checked in to our room, got straight in our pj's and are ready for bed. We're so glad to be in a private room even if it does have bunk beds. I'm dreading our bus to Melbourne that is also 13 hours long but for now we will enjoy our time here in Sydney.Les mer