The Life of Byron...

This is Byron Bay

Its good.

Byron Bay was our first foray into SHARED ACCOMMODATION!, sleeping in bunk beds, general BO, general clothes everywhere and general noise everywhere, I was not looking forward to it. Plus one night in an 8 person room cost the same the 4* place in Cancun ($25).

I actually liked it. Our room was full of Germans, I called in DeutscheBunk.

Jack later had to move rooms as we had booked and in his room there some proper LADS who tried to climb into birds beds while they were sleeping etc, fairly funny behavior

The hostel put on a thing every night which meant there was always a busy bar to go to. The first night in the bar you got a raffle ticket for a free skydive with every drink. This meant that the drunkest person had the best chance of winning an extremely dangerous prize. Although I wasn’t keen on the skydive, I did want to win; and J Bird didn’t want to win so I had his tickets and we got on it. I was sure this one was in the bag. It came time for the DJ to announce the winner; I was planning an acceptance speech in my head. Then surprise surprise, some girl in a group of girls hanging around the DJ booth won. I left in a huff.

At this stage I would like to show you J Bird’s hair, it’s ridiculous. He looks like Niffty who was a dinner lady come 6^th form canteen lady at school. Nice woman but she looked like a massive lesbian.

You can take a minibus to a town called Nimbin, we were told it’s like Amsterdam. The person who told us this has clearly never been to Amsterdam or even seen a picture of Amsterdam or even heard anything about Amsterdam because Nimbin is nothing like Amsterdam. It’s basically 1 street with drug dealers walking around and drug paraphernalia shops.

About 45 minutes into the way there the emergency exit roof hatching thing of the minibus flew off. As in flew away into some field. It was raining so the cabin just completely filled in with water and passengers moved seats to avoid the flooding. I was sat at the back of the bus like a LAD so I just saw the whole thing unfold. When we arrived at Nimbin the bus driver turns around and says:

Driver: “oh, have we had a leak from somewhere” He looks up “oh Christ, where’s the roof?

Passenger 1: “it flew away”

Driver: “it flew away?”

Passenger 2: “yeah, it flew away”

Driver: “why didn’t anyone tell me”

The whole bus shrugs their shoulders

In hindsight that is a pertinent question, I still don’t know why anyone didn’t tell him. Someone should have told him really. Not me, but someone.

We went out again, no stories but got some funny videos and texts.

So next up is Surfer's Paradise (that's actually the name of the town) according to one of the LADS in Jack's room, in Surfer's; "even the dirty birds are fit... probably an average weight of 8-9 stone". What a ridiculous thing to say to a stranger

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Oh and don’t get me wrong, Byron aint all drinking and shouting, it’s got bloody lush scenery too

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