So by a complete stroke of luck and a vindication of the phrase: 'its not what you know but who you know'...i managed to get tickets to the Big Day Out festival in Melbourne. Last time I was in Melbourne I met my cousin's mate, Regi...and I randomly mentioned that I was a massive fan of Muse and that they were headling this year. Tickets had been sold out even before I headed out travelling, so i wasnt holding out much hope of seeing them, but Regi sa...

Melbourne has definately been the place ive loved the most since ive been travelling...and not purely as its the home of Neighbours, tho that has a bit to do with it...since i emailed u last time, I went on another Neighbours Pub Quiz night and met former member Stu Parker (which completes my set of Parkers), Steph Scully (my 2nd Scully) and the legend that is Toadie Rebbechi...ahh man just being in the presence of genius...i wrote him a banner saying 'legend...

We made our way into Melbourne on the 3rd day, and i'd love to tell you that our hostel was amazing, but it was pretty rank to be honest...we were sharing in a 10-bed dorm and Kerry looked like she was going to be physically sick...they were doing roadworks outside as well and at 8am every morning without fail a drill would go off that sounded like the end of the world...it was only for 3days though so we soldiered on and its saving grace was that it was stra...

We decided down the Great Ocean Road in our Automatic Astra...we took it fairly easy as its technically possible to make it in a day, but we spent 3days on the road...the first day was dedciated to driving and we made more than half of the distance...we even passed a sign saying 'Littlehampton'...which caused a mini celebration...yes!!!  Was a pretty cool drive but most of it was long stretches of road, with similar scenery and not many cars abo...