This morning we walked to Queen Victoria Markets, it's huge but they pretty much sold things that we weren't really intersted in so it didn't take that long to walk around. In the Afternoon we walked to Fitzroy gardens, its apparently in the shape of the Union Jack but we couldn't see it!

Today we walked along Yarra River past all the sports stadiums, they certainly like their sports here. We ended up in a place called Richmond, it's a bit run down but its where all the factory outlet shops are. We walked back via Federation Square where there is a rather cool arty building, not much going on in the building but the outside looked nice.

Well it's not as cold here as we thought it was going to be, had a bit of rain today though. We just spent most of today wandering around the streets trying to get our bearings, a lot of the street are quite similar so it gets confusing. In the evening we walked down to the Casino and the Arts Centre to see it all lit up, it seems that all the cities here make such an effort to make the place look nice not like in England!

Had a little bit of a lay in this morning as the bus didn't leave till 8am. Had a free breakfast at the lodge. A lot of driving today, first stop was at a winery where we got to sample lots of different wines and ports, all before 10am so we all slept well on the coach! Stopped for lunch in a town called Sale, not much there really other than shops. Arrived in Melbourne at 5ish had to walk quite far with the backpacks. Hotel is great look forward to looking ...

Robin managed to get the tv working in our room so he managed to get up and watch the England game at 4.30am. We left at 7.30am so there was no point going back to bed. We stopped off at the New and Old Parliament buildings but it was so foggy this morning the pics didn't come out too well. On the journey we got to see the Snowy Mountains in the distance. Tonights overnight stop was in Gelantipy in a place called Karoonda Park Lodge, It was in the middle of n...