Went down to the city centre today for a walk about. It's a very big city and plenty of walking could be done! Wouldn't be as nice as some other areas outside the city centre though. I thought the road near the lads's house (Chapel St.) was really cool and full of interesting buildings. Ended up at the Old Melbourne jail - famous for holding and...

Got up early in the morning to go for a run in Warrnambool before driving back to Melbourne. We needed the exercise after several days driving!! Was tough enough going - especially running in the sand. Got some nice photos though (don't ask me why I took my camera on a run). Then went up to a lookout point near the town which is famous for whale...

Everybody was a bit rough today but eventually resurrected ourselves to go to a professional go-kart place where we were all racing with the Sinn Feiner's team. Was mad craic, everybody dozing into each other and some mad crashes. Came a respectable 11th out of 19 so didn't do too bad.

Arrived in Melbourne in the evening and were greeted by the lads - with beer!! That's how to welcome someone to a city!! We were driven in the mighty wagon to the Pint on Punt, the pub that sponsors their football team (the Sinn Feiner's - wouldn't even get it at home!) where we were staying. Then checked out the lad's pad - basically a hostel t...

Saturday 28th June Sam: We managed to get our flight from Brisbane to Melbourne at 18:25 and landed at 21:00. Apparently getting this flight saved us a two day car journey. Thank god for internal flights :). Once we had landed we realized we were another hours journey out of Melbourne city, having landed at Melbourne Avalon airport. Apparently t...

Aussies are legendary travelers. Many travel for years outside their home. One bartender we talked to from a small town in the South had traveled for 5 years, and she just came home to make enough money to leave for another 5. Not so in Melbourne. Many of the people here have not seen much more than their state. A few said to me, when you live i...

"You're all going to die down here" -- Resident Evil "We have GOT to get out" -- Tremors The Pint on Punt, or The House of the Rising Sun as I affectionately refer to it, is a pub and backpackers hostel in Melbourne. It is so called as it serves pints of beer and sits at the start of Punt Road, which in turn is so called as it is a long road tha...

"Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours" feel free to sing along. Yes thats right we've made it to Melbourne. We actually stayed in a little suburb called St Kilda, about 20 mins by tram from the city centre. The place is called Pint on the Punt and is a hostel above an irish bar, fairly basic, a bed, sink and a wardrobe but its above a pub...

"He waits... that what he does... And tick follows tock follows tick follows tock... Ahab Says 'I don't care who you are, here's to your dream'". I spent some time recently at my old stomping ground in Melbourne, the Pint on Punt Hostel in Windsor/St Kilda where I used to work and live. The owner has changed now, but it's always the case with th...

4-28-2007 Flight to Melbourne We woke up to another cloudy and ugly day in Christchurch so needless to say we were ready for a change. We headed over to the dump station (aka SH*T Hole for Campervans) to do our thing. When we got there was the funniest French couple I have ever seen doing their thing at the dump station. What took me about 3 min...