Katie: We made our way today to the Australian capital Canberra. Not much of a capital city to be honest, it was a place that was completely designed to be a capital city when they couldn't decide between making it Sydney or Melbourne. Canberra definately has a reputation with a lot of Australians of being pretty dull & it was quite easy to see why, there was not much to do there apart from go and see the Parliament building & to drive up ANZAC road t...

After another early start we left Lakes Entrance at sunrise to make our way along the Snowy River to get to Jindabyne. We had an interesting drive along a very narrow dirt road up a steep hill (...mum you would have hated it!). We spent a lot of the journey looking at how close the wheels of the bus were to the edge of the hill! We drove through some tiny villages that were built up the hill in which only 6 people lived. We also saw a hung dog outside someones ho...

Katie:We left Melbourne nice and early at 5am to pick up our first Oz Experience bus to start our trip up the east coast of Australia. There was 20 other travellers on the bus, quite a few people our age from England which was nice. It was good to be with other people as we learnt lots about what to do in Australia from their experiences. We drove first to an old gold mining town called Foster and then to the Southern most point of Australia, Wilsons Promontory. ...

Katie: Arrived in Melbourne after a 3 hour delay at Bangkok airport and then a further delay on the runway as the refridgeration unit was broken...the wonders of Jet Star. We finally arrived at 11am local time. We found a hostel by looking at the information centre in the airport and made our way to the city centre via the sky bus shuttle. One of my favourite things about Melbourne is how nice everybody was, everyone was so helpful right from the moment we steppe...