Well what an eventful day it unexpectedly turned out to be. Woke up early and dropped my bag off at my new hostel the YHA as I wanted to have a sporting tour day down at the Melbourne Olympic Park, which would sandwich lunch with Claire who I had gone to uni with, who I had only discovered on Monday via Facebook was now living in Melbourne so it would be rude not to say hi. My plan was to head to Melbourne Park first, venue of the Australian Open tennis, for a ...

It was time to leave Sydney and move on to Melbourne. I was flying with a low cost airline Tiger, and when I booked it I paid to check-in 15kg of baggage as it had weighed 14.4kg on the way to Sydney and nothing had changed in between time and yet when I put it on the check in desk scales it said 16.7kg and they charged me an extra $30…tossers. So not in a particularly good mood at this point and then the flight was delayed for over an hour! Finally got to Me...