After Formula One rolled out of town on Sunday the 18th, I vowed I would have a day to myself before I caught up with the blogging of my fantastic weekend. I was completely baked by the sun, and 4 days of adreneline and pretrol fumes had taken its tole upon me. What was initended to be 1 day ended up being two weeks. Not much has happened since then though, with the time spent since a mixture of relaxing in the sun, doing work and just chilling out in Melbourn...

After arranging to view Damiens appartment yesterday I got up this morning at 8am and by 9 was viewing the place. It was fantastic, in a great area, and the value for money was awesome. I gave an emphatic yes to the place, however Damien said he had another viewer later in the week and would get back to me. I remain very hopeful! After visting the appartment it was off to inspire-9 once again, this time to get some work done, catch up on blogging, and if ther...

I woke up this morning knowing today would likely end up as a repeat of yesterday. The plan was to get up, head out to Richmond, home of Inspire 9, then go to the tennis in the evening. For once, I stuck to my plans! I got up headed down for breakfast once again, and before leaving, snapped a shot of myself in a mirror as my dad is constantly complaining he hasn't seen a photo of me - see picture. My neck is slowly improving, and today I could actually turn t...

Its my second day in Melbourne and already my Geordie influence is starting to spread over the city. More on that later.... After finishing up yesterday I checked into my hostel and set about getting the lay of the land. I walked up and down Elizabeth St about 6 times in total. The street basically runs right through the centre of Melbourne CBD. I got myself sorted with a new aussie phone number, an aussie bank account and some essentials for out here. Stran...