Port Stephens, NSW

October 22, 2020 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Hostel Environment, The Foreigner

When the borders shut, I improvised and planned on hiring a Kombi to do the east coast of Australia - a feat that would have broken my own record of 41 times. Of course, the Queensland government put an end that. All that was left, then, was the state of New South Wales.

Prepping for the End of the World

March 03, 2020 by Carlitos de Jeffers in Hostel Environment, Immigration

As a die-hard backpacker, half the weight of my rucksack is already made up of Maggi noodles anyway, so I’m sympathetic, to an extent, about people prepping for hard times. The threat of coronavirus, however, has caused locals to buy up all the pasta, pasta sauces, rice, and toilet paper in a 10 kilometre radius. Who’d have thought people from Sydney’s eastern suburbs could be so self-absorbed and thoughtless.