Hostels in Melbourne - Prices and Reviews

[Apologies everyone, I'm writing these last few days all in one go so it will be a bit of a mind dump and spelling and grammatical mistakes will abound!]

So I travelled for 24 hours and yet arrived here 8 hours after I left... the magic of datelines and time zones. Not much to say about the flight, it was long and uneventful. For the long...

Melbourne is a city with aspirations and you can tell. It's a large city with loads of character, a laid-back pace and a lifestyle that oozes quality. Magnificent Tudor and Victorian buildings graciously reflect the city's colourful history while impressive skyscrapers and other buildings by world-renowed architects boast the city's prosperous p...

The next day we sadly had to return the Audi and decided to spend the day exploring the city centre. Maud did this by taking in the various shops and I headed to Federation Square for a bit of culture and an exhibition they had on there that was the complete history of video games from the original space invaders and pong to today´s Wii´s and PS...

So i flew back down from Cairns to Melbourne to meet up with Eirini and head across to Goodwood (about 3h west of Melbourne) with Eirini's gran for Christmas. I was sad to leave Cairns, but had really missed Eirini and it would be nice to have a few days of relaxing as i was still tired from all the travelling. Not much had changed at Goodwood -...

We met Sarah's friend, Fi, in Melbourne, well St Kilda to be precise and ventured into the hills to Healesville Sanctuary. I'd been before and it wasn't as good as I remembered but that could be because we've seen so much wildlife already. We did see the elusive platypus though, up close and personal, so that was a result after floating about o...

Greetings from Christchurch, New Zealand! We decided last minute to leave Sydney and forgo the East Coast brigrade until later next month when hopefully the weather clears up. It's been raining and flooding throughout the entire East Coast and we therefore, made an abrupt change to our plans by reversing our itinerary and heading south to Melbou...

Another update for my blog. I need to do them all today as we are leaving the free internet tommorow and ill never do it otherwise. It should be fairly easy for australia so far as we have only really been to 3 main places since arriving as we wanted to be in sydney for christmas and new year as my mum was coming over so we had quite a long time...

Myra picked us up in the silver bullet (which wasn't as much of an experience as we were told it was going to be). Obviously traffic is a bigger problem in Melbourne than Auckland, because they have HUGE signs on the side of the road telling you how long its going to take you to get to certain points of the motorway... High-tech! But being stuck...

Today we are leaving Melbourne Airport flying Emerates to Dubai via Singapore. We expect to land in Dubai at 5.30am Sunday where we will be picked up by our hotel for a tour of Dubai (after breakfast and a nap)

We made it back here after numerous plane trips which we can assure you were not simple or on time, but somehow we just love it here. Maybe it's the friends that we expect to see or maybe it's the cafe culture, however this time we can certainly say it's due to the great surprise of bumping into friends from KL - Choi Fan and Family. Probably th...