minimalist lifestyle & travel
Sydney, the most populous Australian city and land of Finding Nemo, is a notoriusly expensive place to be a budget traveller. Luckily, there are quite a few dollar-saving tips and tricks that savvy travellers can take advantage of. Here are a few that I discovered in my time there, organized by category.
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I arrived in Byron Bay on a Greyhound bus. As passengers milled off, we were greeted by long-haired guys in board shorts. They held surfboards upright with the names of various hostels emblazoned on the bottoms. Our guy, Brad, was no exception to this rule. He greeted us with the Aussie surfer-dude drawl as we loaded our backpacks into the van. “The Arts Factory” was printed in psychedelic font on our van’s sliding door.
Brad took us first on a short tour of Byron Bay. It is a backpacker’s haven where bare feet are ubiquitous. At lunch time, crowds of people rush to stretches of white-sand beach to surf on their breaks. James Cook, the famed Pacific explorer, first landed in Cape Byron in 1770. Now, the town has a permanent population of around 5,000, with a transient population of travellers present year-round. This is a place where many settle in for a while to live the idyllic, laid-back beach life.
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