Our Christmas this year was slightly different to the norm, as it didn’t feel even remotely festive during the few weeks leading up to 25th December. The Wednesday before Christmas we pulled ourselves out of bed following an early evening nap (hey, it’s tiring sightseeing all day!) to visit the Queen Victoria Night Markets, which did not disappoint! We sampled sangria while wandering around the vintage clothes stalls, smelling the variety of different food st...

After some difficult goodbyes in Albany (our home for 7 months!), then a few short days in sunny Perth watching our first Ashes test, swimming and BBQ-ing with Alex, we took a short 3 hour flight over to Melbourne (arriving in the middle of the night- luckily Melbourne is definitely a 24 hour city so we had no problem getting an Uber, then checking into our hostel.) We had booked an 8 bed dorm in the Melbourne Metro YHA for 2 weeks ish and our first (late night) ...