The Regina Hotel Torquay

... Saturday! We got to Torquay pretty late so we<br>didn&#8217;t see much but everyone in Oz so far is really nice! Oh ya&#8230;the campervan<br>is awesome! It&#8217;s got everything we need and lots enough room! And I have<br>to add that Ryan&#8217;s doing a great job at driving the thing, we haven&#8217;t crashed,<br>driven on the wrong side of the road, or gotten lost&#8230;yet! Lol<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

... I kept myself to myself today, we&#8217;d be in Melbourne later and I just didn&#8217;t have the energy to pretend to like her anymore. Our final stop of the tour was Bell&#8217;s Beach, which you&#8217;ll have heard of if you&#8217;ve ever seen Point Break. Disappointingly the scenes from the movie were shot in Hawaii and look nothing like the real thing, but it&#8217;s a gorgeous beach none the less. Nearby is the town of Torquay which is the birthplace of ...

... stop this morning was Mckenzie falls 1km walk down stairs to the base of the falls, wayy too many steps for that time in the morning! Then we climbed Hollow Mountain, and almost dropped my camera off the edge of a cliff! again the view from the top was amazing. You must be getting so bored of reading the same thing, haha im getting bored of writting it all mountains and views did i not do anything else??? haha Ok then we had lunch in my hometown of ...

... and drink) the Vodka menu!! http://www.yourrestaurants.com.au/guide /?action=venue&amp;venue_url=borsch_vod ka_and_tears After dinner head to the best bar in Asutralia! Revolver! www.revolverupstairs.com.au. Get there at about 7pm and plant yourslef on one of the lounges and watch it change slowly till about 11pm..... then become part of it... Goes off.

... Due to a combination of Middletown syndrome (halfway between Sydney and Melbourne)and peak season elevated prices, we found most decent guest houses full. We thus decided to have a seafood dinner (mostly deep fried - no wonder Australia is the most obese nation) overlooking the harbour, with a glorious sunset before pushing on to the next town of Genoa - which we naively thought would be a decent size with accommodation options! When we ...

Landed in Melbourne and got a taxi to our hostel. We just dropped the bags and went straight into the city for a look around our first Oz city, bursting with excitment again. Naturally, we got a bit lost and got on the wrong tram...all part of the fun eh! but we ended up on the beautiful South bank- not a bad mistake to make after all. Had a walk around here, blown away by how busy it is in contrast ...

... more gratifying for a writer than a book launch. It's the pinnacle of countless hours of hard, hard work, writing, researching, editing and re-writing. I've never been so proud-and inspired-and secretly jealous-of someone than that night. On June 13, 2007 my dear friend became an author. I was beaming like a proud papa, and Amy was shinning brighter than anything I've ever seen before. When it was her time to speak any nervous tension she was ...

back in oz for a couple of weeks. mainly to undo all the good work i did losing weight in thailand. timstams-a-go-go i'm afraid. also managing to lose the fab tan. bit nippy in melbourne. and their first decent rainy weather in months. great timing kate. ah well. good excuse to stay on the sofa and watch the cheapo thai dvds purchased in samui. met up for lunch with claudia in melbourne. felt such a scummy traveller next to her in her posh work ...

After no sleep-again stumbled outside Pirates where the shuttle bus came with 40mins before the flight and the driver had to jump 3 red lights,checked in red eyed clothes everywhere with 30mins to the flight and walked upstairs jumped straight on the plane!Touched down in Melbourne where Simon from Buxton/Bali had sorted my digs and met him at Southern Cross station and checked into Bev N Micks which was cold damp and dark **** after Pirates!Went over to ...

... way round to the promised finale of an all action ocean simulator!  This transpires to be operated by a 16 year old gay kid who minces about making sure everyone is securely strapped in with typical innuendo, before unleashing a jostling and jolting machine in front of a video screen (which isn't even of a photographic level).  Tres rubbish! We arrive at a pub after a tiresome search to find somewhere to get a cheap steak, and settle in.  The pub advise us that they are ...