Travels Avalon is a far away place Days 16-17 Melbourne Saturday, October 15th-16th I last left off on my last afternoon in Melbourne. My last night was spent eating a curry dinner and drinking wine with Bernard, Aaron (my hosts), and an English couchsurfer named Felix. After eating, we went to a gay bar party and met up with some of their friends for an hour or so. The club played good music and it was good people watching. We arrived home arou...

Monday, October 17, 2011 Overalls so Far (not the clothes kind) Day 15—Overall Thoughts Here are some of my overall impressions so far: Hong Kong: Clean, SO easy to navigate, friendly, don't get stared at since they are used to ex-pats everywhere, you can buy anything you could possibly need, good and cheap food (if you look for it), beautiful surrounding mountains, I'd go again! Australia: I'm struck by how much I'm NOT struck by m...

Monday, October 17, 2011 My Kind of Day! Day 15-Melbourne Friday, October 14, 2011 Today was my kind of day in every way! Woke up to a beautiful, sunny day here in Melbourne and took full advantage of it. Bernard and I rode bikes around Parkville Park, saw the Melbourne zoo (but didn't enter since I found a cheaper one in Sydney), and saw a native plant garden. It's been wonderful speaking Spanish the entir...

Monday, October 17, 2011 City of FREE Surprises Day 14-Melbourne, Australia Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 Had a lovely day in Melbourne today. Woke up early and headed out to take an aboriginal heritage walk at the Royal Botanical Gardens that I had read about. On the way, I spotted a tourist information spot and decided to have a look. Good thing because they told me about the 2 FREE shuttle and tram car buses for tourists around the city and ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Apologies to my fans Days 8-13 Hong Kong (Lantau Island) and Australia (Sydney) Well hello there! Did you think I had forgotten about you? Sorry, so sorry! As many of you have so loving pointed out, I've been a little behind on my blogging…it's not because I haven't been thinking about you. Just been having heaps of good fun and haven't had time to write. No excuses, so I'll try to catch you up on the cliffs note...