Last day in Melbourne!!! today we went to the Queen Victoria market,which is a huge market with clothes,gifts,crafts,fresh fruit and veg,meats,cheese,olives,dips.we spent the morning browsing through the stalls and then had a delicious lunch of fresh bread,chesse,salami,tomatoes and olives... =) this afternoon Michelle and I drove to Chadstone-Melbourne's biggest shopping centre,to look round for a little while. Tonight some of the gaps from Godstowe last year ar...

A very early start to today as we ventured along the Great Ocean Road. Although a little way away, once you reach the road you drive right next to the coast with a beautiful view over the ocean. After about 4hours of beautiful scenery we reached the famous Twelve Apostles, and the less well known blow hole,thunder cave, and other impressive landforms along the stretch of coast. Reminded me of Alevel geography with all the rock formations, but I won't try and desc...

Today we got up nice and early and walked to the Melbourne Botanical gardens. Despite not being so warm it was a lovely sunny day,and the garden looked beautiful. We then walked across to the shrine for Victorian soldiers who have fought in the first and second world wars. As it is ANZAC day on Tuesday (when Australia remembers its armed forces) there were lots of veterans around and people visiting the shrine. We managed to join the back of a tour and saw a plaq...

It was a slow start to today.After getting my hair trimmed (yey,it really needed it!)I went into the city to book the rest of my oz tour.Unfortunately the lady I'd spoken to before hadn't give me the full picture so i ended up spending 3 hours of my day stuck in the visitor centre...however,now the rest of my australian trip is entirely booked and paid for.phew.We then headed off for a VERY late lunch in a little alley way in the city,with lots of cute little caf...

Neighbours tour!! Woohoo!! We went into the city around midday and I had some very tasty,very cheap sushi to energize me for what would be a very exciting afternoon. On the way to the Ramsey Street (actually called PinOak Court), Erinsborough (actually called Vermont. Erinsborough is called such as it is an anagram of neighbours....nearly!) we had lots of old neighbours episodes playing. First stop was the school, actually an English school for non-english studen...