Great Ocean Road adventure started today!!!!! :D I checked out and met Louise - we were both feeling that our backpacks were too heavy so caught the free city cirlce tram down Flinders Street to the train station! We had to catch the Sydenham train to Tottenham station to get to the Campervan depot. When we arrived the office was jam packed! and they didnt seem to have the best system of dealing with their customers we were waiting a fairly long time! When we eve...

I had a really lazy start again today trying to catch "Happy hour" on an airline website to get a cheap flight to Cairns - I wasn't lucky this time. After this I decided to wander to the Botanical Gardnes, on my way I ended up at a war memorial building which again had a museum inside, I wandered around for a bit and there was a stone of remeberance insie "The Crypt" whilst I was there they passed a light over this stone, on the 11/11 they ope...

I set off this morning after a lie in for the Queen Victoria Markets which are supposedly some of the best in the World. After about a 15 minute walk through a fairly busy Melbourne I got there - they reminded me alot of the ones in Covent Garden just on a much bigger scale. Stall after stall sold all sorts of Aussie souvenirs - there was the off chavvy clothes stall and HUNDREDS of pairs of UGGS!!!!! :D The markets also had a food section and somehow I ended up ...

The overnight bus was horrendous I couldn't get comfy atall I slept for about 2-3hours when I pieced together all the random bits of sleep I got! Bad Times! We stopped at 3am for a "Meal Break" who wants food at 3am!?!?!?! Arrived in Melbourne at 8am and felt pretty groggy. It wasnt too much of a walk to the hostel from the station. This hostel only opened a week and a half ago it is very squeeky clean and new! I coudln't get into my room until 12pm so...