Well, I feel that as I am leaving Melbourne tomorrow I should actually say something about it... But what to say. On the face of it Melbourne is a very agreeable city. Compact, well laid out, tidy, not too busy - all rather pleasent. But perhaps this is where it falls down. It's fairly dull. The weather over the past few days has been lovely (about 22/23 degrees) and I found myself wishing I had something more picturesque to be gawping at. As it turned out, I we...

There are a few different types of backpackers out there. And I feel that, after the past few days - I need to draw attention to this fact. Each morning is the same, there is always someone checking out, or rising early to catch a bus/train/boat etc. So each day you are faced with the same inevitable problem - being woken up. Now those of you that know me, will know that I am not a morning person. I am especially not a morning person when I'm woken up by an ala...

Before I go off on a rant, I have to share this... there's been 5,230 hits on this blog so far! That is hilarious. Mum, how many times are you reading this thing?! Anyway fans, sorry; friends (just kidding!) The Great Ocean Road. I booked myself on a 2 day trip, with no expectations. I was picked up at the ungodly hour of 6.50am - seriously, who decides this? So I started well having woken up all 5 of my room mates with last minute panic packing (didn't have tim...

So nine of us left the hostel on Wednesday afternoon. It was about 4.30 and polite conversation was being made. The tram stop isn't far away, so idle chit chat carried us through to the first of our trams destined for the television studios. With tickets purchased we took our seats all ready for our tv debut. This is where it starts getting interesting... Some old bloke was sat in the corner, looking out the window. A few stops later, another guy (lets call him ...

Well, after a fairly lengthy wait at the airport, it was onwards to the big land down under! Transfers all went swimmingly well, until I thought I was going to have to wait another couple of hours for a free bus (I didn't in the end) but that was about the height of excitement of said journey. Saying that, I'm pretty happy to have uneventful plane journeys. So I'm all camped down in my hostel, which isn't actually in Melbourne centre, but about 5km outside. Mana...