Ahhh Byron Bay! lots of fond memories! so this pic of gav is to show you all the proper hippy bikes we rode on to get to the eastern most point of australia - so hippy the brake was peddaling backwards! no gears so up hill was tough!

Below is a pic of gav with our friend claire, we went to Nimbin for the day - in case any of you don't know its like australia's version of amsterdam - except hippy! driving into the village is like going into a timewarp back to the seventies, very cool, covered in rainbow writing and colours, a funky museum that was definitely put together by stoners, and everyone and their dog selling ... goodies! we had some cake and as much as we ate it just didn't work - def should have gone for the cookies at least they would have tasted good! so anyway, as part of our day out to nimbin we also went to a proper hippy's house, he's got about 80 acres of land and over his and his parents lives they've literally grown a rainforest! very pretty and very hippy! here they are eating freshly picked macademias - biggest nuts ive seen! tasted good too! (stop being rude i know how that sounds!!)

Of course you cant go anywhere, even the other side of the world without randomly bumping into a few people from sevenoaks! heres gav in the infamous cheeky monkeys with 3 lads from home alex, mike and benson! small world! the other floor photo was from the same evening, loads of us out after our trip to nimbin! cheeky monkeys i dont care what anyone says is a bloody good laugh, had an excellent night there even if i still cant remember some of it ... yes, you might have to ask gav about those moments!



eager beavers from our surf lesson in 1770, on our last morning in byron we hired out a board for an hour - not long enough really but we didn't have long! the beach was gorgeous, we actually spent some time down there and got a little burnt! skin not used to the sun after all the rubbish weather we'd been having! we both managed to get up, but obviously got wiped out a few more times but thats all part of the fun! while i was doing it a man swimming past me told me i had good paddling but bad timing! then the next wave i went after he was yelling at me to get up on the board! funny! were getting better all the time! sad to leave byron bay, its so pretty, so laid back, beautiful beaches and the seas not that cold!