My final day in Rainbow Beach was of course spent basking in the sunshine on the beach. I got on the bus at 7pm to Town of 1770 (so named because Captain Cook landed there in that year). Unfortunately one of my headphones had decided to break so I had my iPod in one ear and Oz Night on the local radio in the other ear... There's only so much Savage Garden a girl can take. It does appear that everything purchased in Thailand (including said headphones) has a shelf...

East Coast Adventures Continued: Rain, Dingos and Goon To my relief the east coast has not been the great array of wet tshirt competitions, drunken Brits who think they're in Malia and excessive commercialism that I was expecting. I was also originally quite apprehensive at the thought of doing the majority of the east coast on my own, as many have said its hard to meet people, but I have not found this to be true at all. Instead I've finally found the Australia...

The Six Month Mark All of a sudden it has actually started to seem that I've been away from home for a long time. Being so far away from the people that you have known all your life is difficult and its easy to feel nostalgic (I even start to idealise Dover on a Saturday night...). Of course I then do say to myself 'Hang on a minute, I'm in Australia, having the time of my life!!' Would I really rather be despising the chavs of Dover in the Funky on a Saturday n...

Melbourne-Brisbane-Surfer's Paradise-Byron Bay-Brisbane Lauren, Anna and myself caught an evening flight to Brisbane. Thankfully before we left there was time for one last trip to the bakery on Fitzroy Street for our final chocolate croissant (honestly that place is legendary, open 24 hours a day its there for your breakfast, lunch, dinner, mid-evening snack and after-drinking snack needs!). After a few tense moments when we thought we had missed the airport shu...

More adventures of the "natural blondes" Monday night saw Lauren and I finally make it to Melbourne's (and reputedly Australia's) finest night out and of course the whole reason I came to Melbourne - Neighbours Night. We arrived at 'The Elephant and Wheelbarrow' pub nice and early and in eager anticipation at meeting Dr Karl 'lothario' Kennedy, Paul 'one leg' Robinson and his on-screen daughter Elle 'b**** face' Robinson. After waiting about a thousand...