Metro Melbourne

... MCG and towards Cooks Cottage. We were a little rushed for time and so decided we would come back to the cottage. It is Melbourne's oldest building. This is a cheat though. It was built in England a long time ago, but wasn't moved to Melbourne until into ...

... June. At 8pm when we would normally be readying ourselves for the display in Cassiobury Park, we sat on the top deck of Melbourne Metro YHA watching a slow drawn out sunset over the horizon. The peaceful evening a long way from the bang, kapow, whizz we ...

Key in ignition. Car into 'D' (stands for 'Drive' apparently). And turn key... Shummdddddddddidddddddd grrrrrrrrrrr pffffft. Try again... pfffft. and again... pfffft. Damnit. We've been given a duffer. The car is refusing to start. Panic begins and Kate ...

... glass look pretty (in the same way brain haemorrhages are pretty). Then, poor half a pint of Coopers Pale Ale (if outside Australia, go for any cloudy lager, like Hoegarden). Then, perform the necessary toast ritual (I favour "I don't care who you are, ...

... really decide where to stay and as I was so impressed with the YHA in the Mountains I thought I'd try the one in Melbourne - Melbourne Metro as it's known - which is apparently 10 min walk from the city. The building's not too beautiful, some 60s looking ...

... before, before being diverted. The Cape Otway lighthouse is meant to be the most used or most useful or most lit lighthouse in Australia (I’m not entirely sure what its claim to fame is as you can tell), but on arrival when we noted the cost of ...

... twin room and we had to make the beds ourselves but the hostel was really nice and friendly being the smaller of the two Melbourne YHA hostels. It had a wormery and a herb garden and the most amazing purple suedette sofas (not the best thing for a ...

... of the other rocks could go at any minute! It was also here that we saw our first wild animal - a porcupine! Heading back to Melbourne way, we stopped at the 12 apostles which are fairly famous out crops of rock that would have started as caves, then ...

... -city hostels.  First,  don't ever trust Canadians. It was they in Byron Bay who suggested the All-Nations Backpacker in Melbourne. Secondly, clean hostels trump location. And lastly, always check your bed before you go to sleep even at a clean hostel ...

... our 3 and a half hour flight, we arrived in Melbourne at 9pm and got the shuttle bus straight over to the hostel. Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and is the most European of all of them, with gardens and parks just minutes walk away from the ...