After a few tears (not sure if they where for joy or sadness) we were back on the road and heading back to Melbourne. Our flight landed early which was of little use to us as we couldn't check into our hotel till lunch time.  We arrived at our hotel at 6am left our bags there and headed out into Melbourne to waste away the hours until ...

I've spent the last week in the state of Victoria, which is on the southern coast of Australia.  The primary reason was to drive the Great Ocean Road, which is a 185-mile stretch of highway along the coast that is notorious for its beautiful scenery.  I took a bus to Melbourne, then rented a car and headed down to the town of Torquay, ...

Had to create an entry for home so that I could get a pin! Melbourne is the best city in the world. Never fear Melbourne dear, I shall return!!!

I woke up and went to church today. After church nanna and I went to a no good movie. I can't even remember what it's called! Then we lazed around at home. I read, she read, we watched a little TV. And by that stage I was getting worried. Mum or Dad hadn't called. I tried them three times before Mum answered. They had left at about 8 o'clock and...

Hi Arrived safely on Friday evening.  The YHA is a good 10 minutes walk outside the city centre and huge compared to where I've been staying in NZ.  It's abit strange to be back in a big city again and a little daunting too.  I didn't want to go out as it was dark and I didn't have my bearings - until I was walking thorugh recepti...

To see all of Australia in the 3 weeks we'd allocated would be impossible, so we decided to visit cities where we knew people and also to explore the remote and less commercialised Western coast. Our journey started in sunny Sydney.  We stayed in a typical backpacker suburb called Kings Cross, which was remarkably similar to that ...

Back in Melbourne, Bryan had the great and impulsive idea to rent a car at the airport. To rent the car (a Toyota Yaris is a very small car) for one day was the same price as the Skybus into the city centre! So it was an awesome deal. Hertz has been a great company to rent from in Australia. Although we had pretty much no sleep, we decided ...

Another long lie today after a late night in front of the TV last night. The morning is taken up with eating and watching TV then in the afternoon I head back to the office on St Kilda Rd to listen in to some calls and see if this jobs for me. When I arrive there are two other people also there to do the same thing.  We're taken into this t...

Heather had mostly recovered from the mysterious bug that hit her the previous couple of days so we decided to do a bit more today and see some of Melbourne. We went to see Cook's Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens (getting an ice cream along the way to counteract a bit of the heat). This cottage belonged to Captain Cook's parents and was transport...

Hello tout le monde! j eprofite de l'ordi de léo (la connexion internet de luke ne mepermet pas, pour l'instant, d'avoir acces à ce site, donc c'es tpoiur ça qu'il n'y a pas de photo) pour vous dire que tout va super bien ici!!! bientôt la fin de l'hiver, il commence à faire doux... de quoi enlever le manteau d'été quoi^^ Niveau boulot, je bosse...