Greetings from the Dandenongs! This weekend we went to the Dandenong Ranges to take a ride on the most famous steam railway in Australia...Puffing Billy! After catching a train from Melbourne, we started our journey at Belgrave station where we got on board Puffing Billy! The definite highlight of this train is that you are allowed to dangle your legs over the side of the carriage whilst hanging on for dear life onto the railings...something which would definit...

For anyone out there that is not interested in flowers or gardens we apologise now.... Tonight's entertainment was the Royal Botanic Gardens! This place is absolutely HUGE! It covers 38 hectares and displays more than 52,000 plants....impressive eh?! We decided to go for a look around after work and fortunately the sun doesn't set until after 8:30pm here at the moment so we had a good few hours of sun until dusk! The gardens are lovely and so tranquil, being t...

Hey, we've finally got around to downloading 300+ pictures we took from the weekend just gone, but don't worry only a select few have made it as far as the blog. Last Wednesday we realised we might not have that many weekends to do whatever we like, So we got into the info booklets to see what we could do at short notice. A couple of hours later we had rented a car and were staying at a motel in Wye River on the Great Ocean Road. The Great Ocean Road is incredi...

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to say hello and let you all know what we have been up to! Week one in the new flat has been lovely, it's looking really homely now and we have enjoyed eating some home cooked meals here and getting back to some sort of normality! All suitcases are unpacked finally too! :) Chris is enjoying work and keeping himself very busy, I haven't managed to find a job yet...the search continues! In the meantime I'm enjoying reading, taking lots o...

G'day, Well the internet is sorted and I'm no longer stressed as we have somewhere to live so it must be time for me to let some blog run from my fingers to your hungry eyes! So we picked up our keys on Saturday morning and started the easiest move in I think we will ever experience: 100m walk to tram, tram to city, cross the road, tram to Docklands walk 50m to building, 14 flights up! Simple! The place is amazing, it was pretty grubby at first but we made som...