They say you should never stop learning new things and right now I am learning to be a backpacker (albeit with a stripy suitcase, because strapping my life to my back and lugging it around the hot streets of Australia seems like an awful lot of hard work when I can wheel it along behind me instead). There is far more skill to being a successful backpacker than I ever imagined, and I am keen to excel in my studies, so here are the notes I’ve been taking along the way: