Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We had a fantastic time at Christmas, even though it was our first Christmas away from home without our family and friends, it was the first Christmas we spent with each other after being together for seven years so that made it extra special "Urgh pass the sick bucket" I hear you all shout haha! It's very odd spending Christmas in Australia, I was a bit of a grumpy elf on the lead up to Christmas. I spent a couple of days ...

Last night we went to our first outdoor cinema since arriving in Australia, the cinema was located just off St Kilda beach on a big grassy area. We'd booked ourselves onto a viewing of the film Rush so we arrived early to snag ourselves some good deck chairs. We came very prepared with our picnic and best of all our sleeping bags!! Everyone looked at us with envy as we made ourselves snug as a bug in our bags on the deck chairs - it may be warm during the day but...

Once again I have neglected to update the blog so here goes: Phillip Island MotoGP Two words: Very loud! We arrived early on the coach so had a wander around and found a good spot to set up camp. Neither of us really keep up to date with bike racing so we didnt have a clue who most of the people were but it was great fun watching them zoom past us. There were a couple of people who missed the bend and ended up in the gravel near us (not in the main race) but lu...

Sorry it's been so long since we've written a blog, here's a round up of what we've up to the last few weeks.... 21st September: Abbotsford has one of the biggest breweries in Australia; Carlton United Brewery, and seeing as it's right on our doorstep it would have been very rude of us not to visit! The tour was pretty standard, we've done tours before so we know by now how beer is made and because we did the tour on a Saturday none of the production lines wer...

Yesterday I got on the train and had a little outing to Brighton, a Melbourne suburb about 20 minutes from the CBD. Brighton is along the Bayside so it has a lovely sandy beach that stretches for miles and it's famed for its Victorian Bathing Boxes which are the main reason why I choose to pay Brighton a visit. The beach itself was lovely and clean and because of the weather (rain was forecast) I pretty much had it all to myself with the exception of a few dog w...