Week 3 in Sydney has begun. We are working 5 days this week so our days will be filled with sandwich making until 3pm!! On Monday evening we headed out to 'George Street' to "Scubar" as it was the crab racing night again and we were determined to enter each and ever race! There was a table and in the centre were 18 crabs under a mixing bowl, when the race started the bowl was lifted and it was the first crab to walk off the table that won. There was an anno...

Well we are heading into our second week in Sydney. We have got the feel of the place a bit more, and now know our way round a little of the city. This week has been earmarked for jobhunting. We had a lazy day Easter Monday keeping all our energy for the night ahead! We headed out first to "Jacksons" bar on 'George Street' quiet but a good place to start the evening. Next up was "Three Wise Monkeys" where we met a girl who can only be described as mad - an...

We arrived from Melbourne at 6.30 this morning after 12h on the nightbus. The journey was ok, the coach was a double-decker with TV and a toilet! We then took a taxi to Anne-Marie's relatives Jane and John's house in Greenwich, for which we had to go over the "Sydney Harbour Bridge"! They have a lovely house which is 2 minutes walk from the ferry port that takes you into the city. In the afternoon we met up with Dave (Anne-Marie's uni friend) and had a wander ar...

We stayed the night at Roy and Frans house in the suburbs of Melbourne. The next morning (Saturday) we all set off for "Mount Dandenong", a newly refurbished park area from which you got a great view of the city and suburbs of Melbourne. It really brought the scale of the city home to us! We then all went to lunch at "The Cuckoo" restaurant at the base of the mountain. It was a German theme restaurant with clocks, leiderhoisen, bells and frilly dresses. The food...

Today we set off early from Melbourne on our 'Great Ocean Road' trip. We joined our group of 18 people on the minibus, so many nationalities ranging from German to Swiss to Danish to American to Dutch to Japanese to us British, and we set off on our 3 day tour. We met a girl called Phillippa who was from York and was travelling before University, we also made friends with Nicola from Germany. The first stop on Day 1 was the sign erected in the centre of the ...