Well as my friend Sarah Davies once said "the bell has rung for hometime"... NNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! The fl...

This is the day all my Jo(e)s leave me!! Our Miss Pitts departs today for South America followed by North America and Canada. You are an amazing traveller Jo and my inspiration when i was thinking about doing this trip. Have the time of your life love - though i know you will, because, like me, you live the ups and downs in equal measure for they are just as rewarding as each other. Look out for those anacondas babe! And Joseph, my Melbourne knight in shini...

Registered with a good agency and am working in the financial district for UBS, the HUGE investment bank. It's a bit of a toughie, but nothing i can't handle. Great to just have the spondoolies coming in again. Joe has been helping me find somewhere to live but i feel so at home at his place that there really hasn't been any urgency! Except for the fact that Joe goes back to Ireland in a week so i really ought to sort it out. It's a very different set up from Sy...

Mum and i moved into a really nice little hostel in St Kilda and used it as a good base to get the tram into town and potter to our hearts' content. We love all the shops and coffee houses esp Acland Street in St Kilda. We enjoyed the gardens and visited the National Gallery. A couple of obligatory beach visits. And of course we snapped up a bargain here and there. Joseph took us out for dinner on Valentine's Day in Lygon Street, in the Italian quarter whi...

A short drive of one hour took us into Melbourne and we immediately parked - mainly because i was so scared of having to do one of the infamous "hook turns", Melbourne's reknowned accident-causing strange tram-avoiding right handers where you have to get into the left lane to turn right and give way to everything first - weird. We seemed to be right in the heart of everything and were a bit phased by the full-on-ness of this packed city. Not a new experience fo...