Nomads Industry Melbourne

So I finally made it to Australia as I landed in Melbourne it was time to head to my hostel I was staying at the Melbourne connection and I have to say that it was a DIVE but enough of my moaning. I decided to explore and see what Merlbourne had to offer I took a walk to the DFO which is a shopping centre had a walk around there for a while and a few of the other streets and headed back to the hostel and chatted to some of the fellow travellers and had a few beers. On my first proper day in M...

Hello all! I made it here in one piece. There were lots of delays but I didn't really mind. My flight out of Chicago was 4 hours late (the toilets were clogged on one plane, then another plane didn't work) causing me to miss my flight out of LA to Sydney. The airline put me up in a fancy hotel, and I got to hang out with my friend Dennis in LA for a day so it worked out great. I've pretty much just walked around the city so far and of course I went out last night, and now it's the weekend. It...

We have spent the last few nights in Melbourne and have loved it! On Monday we managed to meet up with Karen again as she was spending a long weekend in Melbourne at her friend John's. We met them in St Kilda where Karen once again was the perfect tour guide, taking us along the beach and the pier and all around St Kilda's quaint little streets. We stopped for coffee but the cafe was too posh so we moved on to find a lunch venue! We settled on a harbour side cafe bar which did good lunch food...

Melbourne is quite frankly; amazing. After watching England get well and truly trounced by the All Blacks in a pub (full of Kiwis by the way, i was the sole Englishman in there and got hammered every time England got turned over, missed a kick, dropped the ball, conceded a try...... by the mini part of New Zealand in Melbourne, but in a fun, jovial way, nothing nasty) just sat around talking and having a few drinks with the various inhabitants of the inn, who were funny, down to earth and gen...

After a brief stop over in Adelaide to recover from the journey south from Alice Springs, it was on to Melbourne. Ahh Melbourne that ever faithful mistress who has been beguiling me with her charms for over a decade and who gets more lovely on each visit. If there is a more perfect city in the world then I have yet to find it, but before I get carried away in the arms of one so beautiful a quick word about Adelaide. The capital of South Australia has a surprisingly compact city centre which i...

We're still in Melbourne, not far off being here 2 weeks now, but moving onto Canberra tomorrow so thought i'd write about the last week in Melbourne before i go. the last time i updated i had just been on the mammoth day and night neighbours tour/experience. meaning tuesday was obviously a bit of a day of chilling out and recovering. think all i actually did was mess about on the net and then a bit of laundry (not every day can be exciting and different!!). however in the evening something m...

We were anxious to see Melbourne which we had been repeatedly told would be our favorite city in Oz (except from the Sydneysiders). We wondered how it would compare to Sydney as well as to SF as it seemed to generate a lot of comparisons. And indeed everyone was right - we really liked it. There is something very european about the place. Partly due to a Seine-like river being a major feature. Partly due to the compact nature of it. One thing that really struck us was that it seemed to only h...

I arrived, late afternoon to a sunny Melbourne without a map and only an address to tell me where to drop off the car. I imagined the place would be right in the city centre, leaving me with that usual bewildering feeling you get from having to orienteer around the road system of a new city. The streets flowing into the CBD were attractive. Wide, lined with trees and the cars share this with old-fashioned trams that add to the character of this city, famed for it's more European appeal. With ...

My last couple of days in Bali were pretty uneventfull as it chucked it down on Friday so I was pretty much confined to my room watching bad movies on the TV. I did get out and do some shopping though and managed to buy loads of stuff I don't need as the sellers were so pushy. Saturday was gorgeous though so it was more sunbathing before packing my stuff and checking out to go to Oz. Met a lovely girl called Alex on the plane who I was chatting to for ages before she told me she was only 17 a...

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU! Myself and Gavin got a lovely surprise at the start of the week when our buddy Niall turned up and didn't even tell us he was coming! So Gavin was in high spirits to have his partner in crime back. As they hit the clubs and pubs of Melbourne I hit the library and lane ways looking for that cosy hidden away coffee shop that nobody knows about, but everybody in Melbourne seem to know about everywhere so I am still looking! We went down to St. Kilda's on the Tram...