Comfort Inn And Suites Werribee

... of our departure, 28th June, was the hardest. I cried alot, which made mum start crying, which in turn made Alex start crying. Soon the whole family was crying. Crying is contagious! (is there another word for crying?) Even Lily dog was a bit quiet, aware something was going on. Sanja and her family ( Jagoda, Vlado, Sandra and Stephan) followed us to the airport, where we met up with Sanja's ...

... and David!
- Spending time with my friends and family, invaluable!
- Scoffing at the ludicrous prices of some art, and searching for the $1 artwork at the Lindon Postcard competition (it was sold, so my friend got a lovely $10 instead)
- Seeing penguins on the St Kilda pier
- Going back to Mornington Peninsula to see my friend's family who I missed
- Playing card games and board games all night back at my old college (and then going further down ...

... have to come back to Australia! Tomorrow we head to Philip Island to see the penguins and then on Tuesday it's Daylesford, a spa town. On Wednesday we're in the Yarra Valley and staying on a winery (hoorah!) so hopefully will taste some yummy wines on a tour. On Thursday we head to the Grampians National Park and then on Saturday and Sunday it's the Great Ocean Road. Not sure how much internet access there will be so may not be in touch for a while. Love to all R&J xxx

... sureel really - alot in the planning. 2 months is the duration of the holiday - both Malani and I have LSL - this should be an experience of a life-time - we are about to do travel things that we have been discussing for decades.

... saw a few good matches - all in all a few good days. We watched the rest of the tournament on TV as a backpacker's budget only stretches so far! All this tennis has me thinking about Wimbledon - not that I'd ever get tickets to it.... Anyway, the price of accommodation had taken a surge with the tennis on. There was also a BMX competition starting and a few other things which all culminated in us being left with no roof over our heads for a few days. I didn't want to ...

... das Opernhaus und die Harbour Bridge aus der Luft zu sehen. In Melbourne angekommen bin ich mit dem Shuttle Bus zum Hotel gebracht worden. Rucksack aufs Zimmer und zu Fuss die ersten Sehenswuerdigkeiten von Melbourne erkundet. Abends 4 Leute aus Melbourne kennengelernt und zusammen was gegessen. Beim Abschlussbierchen habe ich noch 2 Englaender in ner Bar kennengelernt. Durstig wie diese ja auch sind warens dann doch wieder mehr geworden. 21.01.09 Am Morgen habe ich dann Melbourne ...

... waren)-ging naemlich keine 2 Stunden. Dann hatten wir "frei" und konnten auf eigene Faust los. Als erstes erledigten wir alle Buerokratischen Geschaefte wie Bankkarte und Work und Holiday Visum holen um uns dann gemuetlich Melbourne anzuschauen.Melbourne ist echt eine tolle Stadt. wer was erleben moechte ist hier genau richtig! Nur ein Tipp von mir: Huetet euch davor irgendwelche laengerfristigen Entscheidungen im Tran des Jetlacks zu ...

... the rules... you can only get a visa in Australia if you have an Australian passport... so we are probably going to have to send our passports to the cosulate in London and pray that they arrive back in Cairns in time for us to fly out to Japan... otherwise we're going to have to cancel the Chinese leg of our trip... which would be a serious downer to say the least...! Anyway... I shall keep you updated on that situation... More to come from Australia soon!!

Hi everyone! Last week we went to Werribee Open Zoo, which is a really good safari park about half an hour from home. As you can see we saw toms of animals. Its very autumnal now, very sunny days but a bit of a nip in the air. Its very pretty though with all the leaves changing colour. We had a great time and hopefully we'll be able to take The Mackintosh gang there in July, Ross and Scott ...

after taking three days to drive from sydney to melbourne we realised there was no way we would catch the others are car brokedown on the second morning and neiter of us realy wanted to be doing what we was doing! After the kindest taxi driver in the world got are car going again we were on are way we passed straight through melbourne and headed for ...