Liking Melbourne a lot - despite of, or in the face of, the bloody cold weather!! Just like summertime in England!! Again we have been a bit cultured here (not quite grown fungus yet though thank you). Seen a few exhibitions etc - of note is the TV one with its huge bank of tellies. Melbourne is a funky place with lots of odd stuff to see. The Dracula theme restaurant was awesome - gothic overload and absolutely hilarious - I never knew a floures...

No it's not the set of the next Bond movie, it's a wine exhibit in Adelaide. Yes, yes I know. Wine exhibit, what can I say we were just being tourists and looking at everything. There is a big display and it teaches you how to make a good wine, acidity, fermantation and all that, then it allows you to make a virtual wine using the rules it has shown you. After i had put in all my data and answered all the question it told me I had, and I quote, "Sin...

THE MULGA TOUR - JUNE 2006 Oh what a merry happy flock We were at 6am O' #@*^ing clock We set off from Annie's place Nobody in the mood to race "5am is a bad time to rise" Came all our sleepy little cries Yet off we set on our tour Wondering what the hell we were in for Mark 'Our Captain' looked too awake I mean - NO need - for heanven's sake! He blasted out tunes to help our mood But - Kylie - the locomotion - really dude?! At our fi...

just a brief note, not really anything to do with the holiday, more the way the holiday is going, We are booked in with these damn VIP vouchers for accomodation, thing is not one hostel we have been to yet seems to know how they work, some have never heard of them and some wont even take them! AVOID AVOID AVOID! totall rip off merchants, we paid for all our accomodation up front in England and now we are still having to pay now that we are here!!!!!! ...

Well here we are in Darwin, this place is pretty cool, there's some great stuff to do and if you fancy a bit of late night shopping/festival kind of thing check out the night market on Mindle beach. The hostels are cool and so are the bars, spent a good night out boozing with two good guys, Kev and Barry. Just wandered into a bar for a quick one, ended up in a pub quiz team. We were far too drunk to win anything but a good laugh all the same. Everyone...