On day 39 I headed into the CBD again to make sure I had explored everything I wanted to do whilst being in Melbourne, as I had done all I wanted to do I looked around the CBD itself and browsed some of the shops and museums it had to offer. For a change the weather actually stayed nice and sunny all day so it was good to sit outside and enjoy my lunch in the sunshine. After a day exploring the city I headed back to the house and started to pack things up as I wi...

On Day 38, I first headed to the Post Office to send a package back to the UK, so mum keep an eye on the post, enclosed will be some leaflets and some postcards, now I apologise to anyone that will get a postcard with a British stamp on it, it's just that the Australian government decide to charge tourists a bit of money for sending a single post card back to the UK, and as much as I love everyone $2.60 for each stamp is a bit too much for me! After the PO I fina...

Day 37 I headed into the CBD and caught the number 119 Tram to the Queen Victoria Markets which were slightly similar to those in Adelaide, but out the back of the food market was an arts and crafts market, with many different categories of items that you could purchase, obviously you had a lot of souvenir stalls who are run by people who will see a tourist from a mile off and will try and charge you a bit too much, so make sure you are good at haggling because I...

On Day 36 as it was raining again, much to my annoyance I thought of doing something that would help me not to get wet and keep me indoors so as I had a discount voucher I headed to the Melbourne Aquarium, which was a great way to enjoy such a miserable day. In the aquarium they had 12 zones that covered all the thousands of different species of water creatures they had there, it was a very well laid out place that let people hold a starfish (which by the way fee...

Day 33 was a nice chilled out day at Jim & Miranda's sorting through my photos and watching an extremely dismal effort at cricket by England who for the third time I think were all out for under 200 again, but that was due to the immense bowling of on form Mitchell Johnson who ended up taking 7 wickets for 40 runs, not a bad tally. After lunch I helped Jim lay some new paving outside the house so they could move the trailer around from the back of the house t...