Today is our last day in Melbourne and the morning was spent on a gloriously cheesy tour of some of the more famous sights of Neighbours. We made our way to the official Neighbours office (yes, really, they do have one) where we piled onto a mini bus and made our way out of the city. On the way to our first stop the bus driver told us a few facts about the surrounding area before putting on a DVD of some of the cast's music videos. Obviously there was Kylie si...

After spending the last two months in Melbourne we decided that we should get our act together this weekend and do some of the tourist things that are on offer here. We set out this morning and headed for the Shrine of Remembrance, which was built to commemorate all the Australian's that had fought in all wars since World War One. When we arrived we watched a short propaganda film about the war before we went on a brief guided tour of the building with one of ...

After spending the last few nights crashing on the floor of first Natalie's place and then Jamie and Laura's, today we moved into a little place of our own that we will be calling home for the next six weeks or so while we are in Melbourne. We are renting a one bedroom flat just outside of the city in Westgarth from a girl that had to go to Sydney for work on short notice. It's only a ten minute train ride into the city centre and only a few stops along the line ...

We have now been in Melbourne for a few days and have managed to catch up with a few friends ahead of our weekend camping trip to the Grampians this afternoon. After getting ourselves set up at the campsite outside of town we went for a drive around on Wednesday to try to get ourselves familiar with the city, but it is so much bigger than anything that we have become used to recently! We did at least manage to find out where we needed to go in the evening to mee...