Melbourne Metro YHA

Melbourne is quite frankly; amazing. After watching England get well and truly trounced by the All Blacks in a pub (full of Kiwis by the way, i was the sole Englishman in there and got hammered every time England got turned over, missed a kick, dropped the ball, conceded a try...... by the mini part of New Zealand in Melbourne, but in a fun, jovial way, nothing nasty) just sat around talking and having a few drinks with the various inhabitants of the inn, who were funny, down to earth and gen...

I left my family's house at 10.30 to catch the bus, but the bus took longer than I expected and I only arrived with with 10 minutes spare. You get half an hour before your flight and I got there with 40 minutes spare. The flight was only 54 minutes and did was nice and smooth plus I had three seats to myself. I got off the flight and caught the skybus which was $16, which takes you to the skybus port and then you get transferred to your hostel. I am staying in the Metro YHA and has pluses and...

My second week started of by going to Albert Park and St Kilda. Albert park is a very nice place with a massive lake in the center and a great place to relax. Albert is more known for the place where the Australian Formula one is raced. During a normal year it is just a normal road and all that stays is the pit area which is not used. It takes two months to prepare and one month to take down in order to get the event complete. After staying around Albert park for a while I walked 15 minutes ...

Well .. i have met so many new friends!

I chat to other bowlers on the Australian Bowls World Bowls Forum .. and most of them are from Melbourne so i have had a busy couple of days meeting some of them!

I was picked up on Saturday morning by 2 of them and taken for breakfast at one club and then we drove to the club that hosted the Commonwealth Games when it was hosted by Melbourne a few years back ... unfortunately they lost as they all thought the green was very heavy! It was ...

I was shown this song on you tube ... click the link and turn your sound up ready ... then you will understand why i am here .... or maybe i am here just cos i am nuts!!!

http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=wy_TB6onHVE

Anyway ... so i have been in Melbourne over a week now .. and i am LOVING it!!!! It is fantastic ... but maybe its just the Melbourne hospitality that i am loving ....

So ... Tuesday i went to Philip Island which is a little island connected by road just south ...

Well .. i got back here Thursday Evening and hit the internet to find out more details about what i should do next ... but didn't decide anything!

On Friday i went into town and picked up my new glasses .. hooray i can see! and i also did some shopping .. hooray shopping ... and i bought some new shorts ...

I also walked about for a bit and found the State Library where they do free internet access (which is where i am now!)

Then i took the tram out to Fitzroy and met Plu...

Well .... i think i will let Winnie tell this story ....

There i was sitting quite comfortably on the bed last Sunday when BANG in she came opening the door and woke me up ... all of a sudden there were clothes everywhere and she was mumbling something about ... yuck that smells .. yuck that needs washing!!! Then she looked at me .... i felt a cold shiver run down my spine .. Hahahaha she laughed .. its your turn! then i am picked up and put onto the window sill ... she takes my pictur...

Så har vi endelig fået vores bil, det var nu en dejlig fornemmelse endelig at kunne komme i gang med turen.
Vi har forladt Sydney og er begyndt at køre mod Melbourne, undervejs har vi haft en overnatning i Canberra.
Der er rigtig flot når man kommer uden for byerne hernede, men der er godt nok øde. Der ligger godt nok nogle små byer men der er langt i mellem dem, der kører næsten heller ingen biler på de store veje kun lastbiler.
Vi har lige haft 2 overnatninger i Melbourne, det er ...

All good things come to an end one day....even my time in Australia. A few guys from the Rock Tour group caught a flight back to Melbourne. Me, Antonio and Alana stuck together for our last days in Melbourne and did a fair bit of sightseeing, strolled around markets, had good food and a few drinks (I do suck at drinking games by the way - disastrous), went to the movies and just had a good time.
Somehow the time went so quickly that my mindset wasn't focused on Asia yet. And on Tuesday mo...