So I’ve been in Sydney for just over two weeks, couch surfing with a couple of mates from back home near Chinatown / Darling Harbour. Having handed out CVs with not so much as a whisper in response, I’d decided it was time to move on and look for work elsewhere. Tomorrow I leave for Melbourne. On Sunday

I'm not a big breakfast fan, that is unless it's a proper breakfast, none of this cereal rubbish. I wouldn't have cereal for dinner, so why settle for it at breakfast?! But what to have instead when in Sydney? Gorge on oysters and sashimi at the world’s third largest fish market, obviously. The market is in Pyrmont, I’m

Buying food from the supermarket in Australia is expensive. So much so that I've hardly cooked since being here - buying a loaf of bread and tin of baked beans costs nearly as much as eating out, I know which I'd rather. In Chinatown you can expect to pay between $9 and $13 for a meal, that’s between £5

I’ve been in Sydney for nearly two weeks now and have been doing my utmost to sniff out the best Asian eateries in and around Chinatown. After days of wandering round at lunchtime, I soon learned, by way of queue size, which restaurants were held in high regard by the locals and which to avoid. Along with queue

 After an early train to Heathrow and a goodbye peck on the cheek from the old dear, I made my way through passport control and bag check at Heathrow’s newly revamped T2 – my year of eating and travelling was finally upon me, but not before I could get my final fix of Great British grub, and what

G’day and welcome! I’ve been in Oz for just over a week now, sunning myself, looking for work and hunting out good eateries. My plan is to stay here for six months, New Zealand for two, and then on to South and Central America for six months – starting in Santiago and working my way north. This blog