Day 97 Wednesday 16th December 2009 Johno says Today was an absolute scorcher in the high thirties, so we planned a marathon beach day to top up the burn on the previous day in St Kilda. Needless to say, we did feel the burn after around 20 minutes of sun, so we had a midday break around 2 o'clock. Stacey quite wisely spent her time in a back packer tour company office on the net whereas I decided to walk the streets through the scorching hot weather, great opt...

Day 93 Thursday 10th December 2009 Johno says Today the hostel offered guests a few extra bits like sausage, bacon and beans so we tucked into that before check out then went to pick up our hire car which we were going to use over the next 4 days to drive the 250km Great Ocean Road. It was a family saloon, Vauxhall Cruze, with more than enough space for us so we happily made our way on to the Australian road. First of all, we needed to find the Canon service ce...

Day 91 Tuesday 8th December 2009 Johno says The 'Taxi Driver' starring De Niro and a couple of chick flicks for Stace later and we had arrived into Melbourne airport and greeted by a wagging tailed sniffer dog. Amazingly, after months of communicating by hand signals and drawing pictures we were in a place where communication was not a problem, traffic is at a normal controlled pace, police actually police the society… and (unfortunately) beers and food are a...