Today we visited the National Museum of Australia, which is an unusually designed building - there's something which looks like a rollercoaster / skating ramp coming out of the building at the front! We walked from the hostel, along the edge of the lake, and down a bit of a dirt track to get to the museum. Like all good museums, admission was free, and there were lots of exhibitions, so you could easily spend a day there. The first exhibitions we looked around w...

After a good night's rest, we were ready to head out into Canberra to explore the capital. We decided to head for Parliament House, and the guy behind the desk at the hostel told it would be a 15 minute walk…it took 35! We walked over the bridge that crosses Lake Burley Griffin in the centre of town. It is just one of many features planned in by the architect who designed Canberra as the capital city, when politicians couldn't agree whether Sydney or Melbourne ...

Today was pretty uneventful as it mainly consisted of a ten hour bus journey from Melbourne to Canberra! We left the apartment just after 6am and 2 hours sleep - today was not going to be fun! Our bus left at 7:15am and we slept for most of the morning, only waking up when the driver interrupted us to give us information or instructions…which he liked to do a lot! He seemed to love the sound of his own voice and explained to us in great detail how to use the a...

Today was our last day in Melbourne, before we get the bus to Canberra tomorrow. It feels like we've been in and around Melbourne for months and we feel like we know the place pretty well now. There were still a few things we'd planned to do in Melbourne that we hadn't got round to, but since we only had today we decided the top two were to visit Captain Cook's Cottage and the Old Melbourne Gaol. After breakfast we walked to Fitzroy Gardens on the outskirts of t...

Today we were going on a trip to Phillip Island on a wildlife tour. The highlight of Phillip Island is the penguin parade each night. We'd watched the 'Penguin Island' documentary by Rolf Harris a few years ago and were both excited to go to the island which is a colony for around 50,000 little penguins! We set our alarm to get up early-ish, and after breakfast stopped at a nearby internet café to print some stuff out that we needed. At 11:20 we were picked up ...