Melbourne!! Sunday 31 March... Somehow I managed to drive us to Melbourne with Vanessa navigating. We ended up parking up and wondering around the town before we went to meet this guy who said we could couchsurf at his. We only realised that the clocks were half an hour ahead of Adelaide when it was about 6pm so then made our way to his house. We found it fine, using my tablet and the downloaded google map (this has proved VERY useful!). He seemed really...

So Tuesday was the day we set off on our road trip to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road with Vanessa and Helena. We met at lunch then did a food shop at Woolworths which came to a grand total of $60. Then a bit of petrol also cost us $20 each! By about 3pm we were all ready to set off. Vanessa was the first to drive us so off we went in a Nissan punto, a 2 man tent, 2 chairs, a box of food...and ourselves! I clocked the mileage as 136456 the roads are so...

My time with the Dignams has been great. I have spent 6 days with them and I have basically been chilling, sleeping, eating, wondering around the town and enjoying the families company. They have all been lovely. Ruth and Paul are the parents, and they have 8 kids. I won't go into detail as I can't even remember but only Nathan, 16 and Kerryn, 19, live here now. The parents also had 3 Indonesian guys staying here who Nathan met on his school exchange and als...

So I really enjoyed Singapore. I thought it was a fabo place! There were lots of areas to explore including Chinatown, Little India, Arab street, all the quays and not to mention the billion and one shopping centres which you really can get lost in. And they seem so quiet and relaxed even at the weekend because there are so many and they are so dispersed. Therebis always building work going on, they are always building something new, bigger and better. The underg...

Back on the blog...:) Cassie and I took the 9am train to KL...which didn't actually leave until 10am (I wasn't in Cassie's good books as she could have had an extra hours sleep, but she was kept happy with a Starbucks coffee)! The journey went really quick as usual these days I slept and looked at the scenery. We arrived at about 1pm, so took a walk around China town in the afternoon and grabbed some food. We stayed in a hostel called Reggae Mansion. This p...