Sydney --> Cairnes

So, yesterday was my final day in Sydney, although it wasn't much of a day seeing as my plane left at 3pm and I was at the airport by 1. Still, I've gotta' say that all in all my 4 days in the city were pretty awesome. The hostel I stayed in, although slightly lacking in the cleanliness department was cheap, cheerful and gave you a surprising amount of free services in a retrospect brought about by the hostel I'm currently in, although more about that later.

Flying up to Cairns was a bit of a nightmare, the 4 hour flight was made almost unbearable due to the fact I seemed to have been tactically positioned in a central location between three young families, the parents of which seemed totally incapable of getting there kids to sit down and shut up. Little bastard one thought it was awesome to change aisles every five minutes or cry as a result, throwing pringles and trying to steal my satchel as he did so. Little shit behind me loved punching, actually punching, the back of my chair, an act which would have earned her a reclining seat back to the face if it had actually worked.

Still, it was all over in 4 hours, which compared to the england to Sydney flight, passed fairly easily.

So I'm in Cairns now, I'm not enjoying it. I know I've only been here for a night, but I can just feel it. It's not even a proper city, it's a beach town that's grown fat on tourism. The people are all beach beauty layabouts, which is nice for them, but when you're an uptight brit like me, it's kinda annoying.

It's all so relaxed, there's no pace. I guess that's what you get when you're a beach town with little else to do, but it's just not my sort of thing. I know I'm a total country boy, but I'm missing the hustle, bustle and generally liveliness of Sydney already.

The hostel as well, it's very pretty, decked out as you'd expect at a beach resort, rooms are animals, not numbers, there's palms everywhere, cabins instead of buildings, but they charge for everything. The internet, the lockers, the washing machines. There are no plugs in the rooms and no en suite. You get less but it costs more.

Anyways, gonna try and drag McCloud (who I spent a good two hours telling off last night) to get some breakfast. I am starving and she does not seem to care.