As previously mentioned, we had unfortuitously booked to arrive in Melbourne on the weekend of the Grand Prix, meaning that hostel space was at an all-time premium, with prices hiked accordingly. We managed to get into a hostel in Fitzroy, a suburb just north of the CBD, called The Nunnery, where they had booked us both into an 8 bed dorm room f...

So after driving around the Great Ocean Road for a bit my mom, Loretta and I headed onwards to Melbourne. Here we met up with Kevin for lunch. Lunch was good, nice to catch up and eat some good food, although it was one of those fancy places where the entire meal is like two bites worth...but at least it tasted delicious! We decided to split up ...

Na een lange rit met de nachtbus met bijzonder weinig slaap (volle bus, slechte stoel, pratende buren) kwam ik om 6.15 's ochtend dan in Melbourne aan. Melbourne was nat en niet zonnig zoals ik gehoopt had. Het uitzoeken van de trams was me echt teveel werk op deze maandagochtend en samen met een ander meisje nam ik de taxi naar ons hostel: the ...

Na de tour van gisteren, namen we donderdag een ochtend om uit te slapen en niks te doen en was het 's middags tijd om te gaan winkelen. Vrijdags zijn we naar de Melbourne Gaol geweest: een gevangenis berucht vanwege de executie van Ned Kelly, gebouwd in het midden van de engentiende eeuw, maar in gebruik tot halverwege de jaren negentig van de ...

Op donderdagochtend nam ik de trein en de tram weer terug naar mijn hostel, the Nunnery. In de tram bedacht ik me, dat Melbourne de eerste stad ik waar ik me werkelijk thuis voel. Het is de eerste stad in Australie waarvan ik denk dat ik er werkelijk voor een langere tijd zou kunnen leven. Die middag ben ik naar het Melbourne Museum geweest. Ik ...

Hi All, Today we have been to the Yara Valley - wine tasting. It has been raining quite a bit today so it was not a bad move to spend the day inside tasting wine. Well that was until we came back to Melbourne at 5pm both with a hangover, the fortified red wine worked its trick :o) - hangovers gone now (it is 9.30pm our time) This time we only bo...

I arrived in Melbourne this morning after being bumped off one flight. Thankfully the wait was very short. I was at the hostel and on the streets about 1pm. I headed to St Kildas on the coast for the Sunday street market. More artists and their wares. St Kildas is a nice little seaside town. Lots of shopping and restaurants. I had my first "real...

Although our flight didn't leave until midday, we got woken up at 5.30am by the sound of the rest of the group stirring. Surprisingly I'd had a very peaceful and comfortable night in a swag and although it was cold outside (below freezing), I'd been toastie warm in my sleeping back, even after the fire had died. I snoozed for the next hour or so...

Fortunately our time in the Red Centre hadn't permanently adjusted my body clock and I was able to lie in until 10am today. As much as I'd enjoyed sleeping under the stars in swags, I was glad to be back in a comfortable bed and a heated room. The hostel that we're staying in for our week in Melbourne is a beautiful 19th century building called ...

Today saw us embark on the first of the three daytrips that we've got booked for our time in Melbourne, fortunately this one didn't involve having to get up early. After a shower we walked to the main part of the hostel, where we spotted our cat sound asleep on the lap of another backpacker (bloody traitor that he was!). We got picked up at 10.4...

I didn't get up until 10am this morning because we didn't really have much planned for the day. The reason for this was that we'd had two really busy days on the trot and tomorrow we'd be going down the Great Ocean Road and that was a 15 hour day, so we wanted to be fresh for that. Eventually I managed to drag myself out of bed and have a shower...

Yesterday was my first full day in Melbourne and I spent a fair while walking around the city finding my way about and following two of a series of very good walks around different parts of the city: a walk through the shopping arcades and little lanes and a contrasting one through the lovely Fitzroy Gardens and the extremely posh, old suburb of...

Hi everyone We arrived in Melbourne in the wee hours of the morning, slightly tired after a flight with a child that screamed for 7 hrs, oh joy. We arrived at the hotel in South Yarra, which seemed v nice, and spent the day hostel searching and arranging our stay in Melbourne for the next week. We arranged a few nights at a hostel called 'The Nu...

As we came in to land at Melbourne Airport the cloud was really low and it didn't clear until we were just about on the runway. After an incredibly bumpy landing I got off the plane and through customs fairly quickly. I went to pick my bag up off the carousel and found it was covered in a gooey white substance which was oozing out of my bag all ...

Well here we are back in Melbourne. Its so good sleeping in a bed again!!! We had a great week in Melbourne. After a couple of days stying in a ****** hostel in the city centre we moved to the Nunnery. It's a nice hostel that used to be a nunnery hence the name. Its in Fitzroy just outside the centre. On Tuesday we went for a wander around the F...

Landed in Melbourne around 8.30pm and got the bus and tram to The Nunnery which is located in Fitzroy near Brunswick Street. Lots of cafes, bars, retro-clothing shops, vegan supermarkets and dirty smelly students. And backpackers. Room of 6. Only met one lad so far and he's a complete idiot from Middlesborough. Hope the other roomies are better ...

The Nunnery As the name suggests,. Opposite a park where the possums roam free, it's a former convent and a great place to stay... apart from the guests. Whilst the Xmas Day boys are great, for some reason this place attracts a large number of complete *******. Very cliquey (too many long-termers), totally up their own ***** and choosing to spen...

Well the solo adventure has started and I feel like I'm a student again. All the features are here; communal living; shared bathrooms; using public transport or walking everywhere; free food specials in the hostel; names on the items on the fridge and lots of new faces. I'm even developing a bout of acne to really relive my youth. No binge drink...

G'day folkes from a nice & warm Melbourne, Australia, where the local time is 19:55 and the forecase is grrrrrreat!! The flight from Tokyo was quite eventful! Leaving at 8:15pm, Thom had managed to get upgraded to Business Class by 8:20. Well I wasn't jealous, no, not me: I got to sit next to an Australian & so have perfected my accent a...

Alarm goes off at 930am so we watch a bit of early morning TV, have some breakfast then get packed up and ready to head off. Lisa is taking the first stint driving so I guide her out as she backs the car from the driveway onto the street. As the car passes, I noticed that the front driverside tyre, which had the puncture, has shredded exactly wh...

G'day It's been over a week now since my last entry into the travelogue and now that I've got a few hours to kill before getting on my bus bound to Brisbane, it seems a good time to give you an update of my Aussie activities. The last time I wrote, I had just completed a walking tour of the city of Adelaide. The following day was very much a dom...

So next stop Australia! We flew from Christchurch into Melbourne - looking forward to our next place. We didn't realize what a big city it is so were slightly overwhelmed especially as we had spent the remaining time in NZ in little towns and countryside! We were there for the weekend - as you should know Melbourne is hosting the Commonwealth ga...

Das ist mein zu Hause hier in Melbourne!

got here, despite an hour's delay on the plane, to lots of sun. me and helen cooked up a mean meal of fajitas for matt (jo's boyfriend - jo being helen's mate in sydney whose place we stayed at), and his flat mates dan and russell (who looks just like martin,the software manager at my old job - v spooky) and russell's mate sian. hit the beach on...

Arrived today and it's very chilly! The weather looks a bit like the UK at the moment. Staying in a hostel called the Nunnery, the staff are all called nuns, it seems a nice place. Off out now to investigate....... Well, its warmed up and I had a suntan verging on the sunburn. Melbourne had a great vibe about it. Very laid back city with lots of...

On Thursday we spent a final day at Jules' making the most of having the internet and catching up with photos, had dinner then Jules parents dropped us off at The Nunnery in Fitzroy. Early night in dorm. On Friday we went to Victoria Market to find Will a coat, bought hand warmers in preparation for the cold weather, stuff to cook for dinner, ha...