Week 4 Christmas Eve First we had the job of moving hostel away from and into the city. The first people that Jacko bumped into when we arrived there were two girls that he and Johno had met on holiday in Kos a few years back. Once we could get checked into our rooms we threw our bags in and made our way to the shops to buy our secret Santa presents (we had a $25 limit). We had to rush around a bit as the shops shut at 5pm and we didn’t leave until 3pm. We ...

Week 3 Hanging In Another day spent holed up in the room after a very long evening, with lots of alcohol consumed the night before. We were definitely making most use of our own room and tv. With England still struggling in the cricket it was looking more than likely that our worst fears were going to come true and we would be 3-0 down and the Ashes over. It was going to be hard to bat out another day. Come On You Irons Unfortunately we couldn’t watch the W...

Week 2 Four Seasons Although we had a good go at it on Saturday night none of us were too hungover to crawl out of bed and make our way down to the beach. Another really hot day was cut short when the sky came over very cloudy and a sudden breeze made it a lot cooler. They say that Melbourne can have four seasons in one day and we were starting to see evidence of it. So we left the beach and made our way to the good old pier to have a few bottles of beer. When we...

Leaving the UKWell this trip certainly started how it was meant to go on, Jacko our elder was rounding up me, Whitto and Johno who had had about 3 hours sleep between us! We had a bit of delay leaving Heathrow which meant there was a rush through Dubai airport straight to the boarding lounge for our connection to Melbourne. Another delay leaving Dubai set panic in as some bags had gone missing from the connecting flights. This meant we could only spend 30mins at ...