Leaving Sydney we got an overnight bus down to Melbourne. It wasn't the most comfortable experience- not a patch on the South American buses but it saved us a night's accommodation. Melbourne is a cosmopolitan city  much like Sydney and the hostel we stayed in was nice. We didn't exactly do much there as we were in great need of a chil...

Lisa's up early to go to her interview today and I'm up not far behind her. After finding a Sugar bag raided by the varmint last night I've decided to empty the contents of the cupboard and move it to a large sealed box we have in the car.  This means the only food supply left in the kitchen is the poison!  Muuu HA HA HA HA HA! Lisa co...

Well, I can't quite believe that it's just under a year that I've been in Australia. The old saying goes that time flies when you're having fun and it certainly has over the past twelve months. It only seems like yesterday that I was writing my first entry on this travel blog and here I am nearly a year later writing my last entry from Australia...

After getting home at 5am... a lay in was in order on Sunday. We finally managed to drag ourselves out of bed early that evening and went back to the Telstra Dome to see the guys. It was the final night of the whole U2 tour so the atmosphere was amazing. Wazza and Ed managed to get 2 passes for the concert off two of the other truckies...

Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ The Melbourne Cup, "the race that stops a nation": the biggest horse race in Australia and a national holliday, part of Oz' history.   ___________________________  The night was not long enough, but I had to get up, and anyway it takes several good nights sleep to recover from exhausti...

Very expensive coach tours, but have to do it to see the animals and mountains!The bus took us all thru the Dandedong Mountains and into the Yarra Valley. Very pretty scenery, reminded me of Lake Tahoe. The animal sanctuaury was very dissapointing, could only see the koalas from a distance and the kangaroos were hanging out in the shade far from...

Wednesday, 5th April 2006. We left the house at approx. 6:30 PM, we arrived at Cairns Airport at 7:00 PM, waited for an hour, by 8:00 PM, the aircraft started boarding. Once boarded, the flight took 3 hours to arrive in Melbourne, to pass time I was listening to the in aircraft radio system, via headphones, aswell as my iPod. We flew Virgin Blue...

Last night I made it down to Melbourne at the south of Australia. It was a long way on the train but it was worth the wait. The scenery of the east coast of Australia is very beautiful although I'm sure the outback is much more exciting. There were no kangaroo sightings, not even a dingo but we did pass lots of sheep, cattle, and horses. In Melb...

Foto's die ook bij dit verslag horen zijn te vinden onder de volgende link: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/mnobels2406 in de map Melbourne, klik op de functie Slideshow en de foto's komen achter elkaar in beeld(waarschijnlijk werkt de link niet direct in dit programma dus even kopieren naar de adresbalk). In Melbourne hebben we een paar dagen doo...