Dear Journal, it's been three weeks since we last wrote because all we've been doing is picking pears and eating pasta. This was Lee's contribution to the journal (minus a few swear words) which is why he's not writing it! Since we last wrote, we started to run out of money again so got a job (picking pears AGAIN) in the Adelaide Hills. However after managing to secure a job we realised that we really needed our own car, as the orchard is in the middle of no whe...

So, the last day in Melbourne was emotional. The weather is a bit dodge there but we grew to really love the place. It began with the obligatory trip to Melbourne Museum for some free internet usage. Here we had plenty of time to organise our Great Ocean Road trip, but decided against it... The only other thing we had left to do in Melbournia was the Eureka Skydeck which we did in the evening and got to see some fantastic views of the city at night. After that we...

We have completed our Nashi pear picking experience....yay!!! Left Shepparton on Wednesday after a good oz style bbq on our last night. We have kept our tent as we made quite a bit of cash doing work and camping so we're thinking we might repeat the experience if the opportunity arises again. So we got back to Melbourne on Wednesday, checked into the hostel we were at before and got upgraded to a private twin room, which was lush after staying in a tent for so l...

Well... we started our new job on monday the 14th of Feb and it is a lot better than the last one. For a start we actually get paid which is always good and we're getting paid by the hour with breaks instead of per bin so we don't have to work as hard. It's hard work and our knees and back and shoulders are proper aching after a week of it but at least we know we're getting paid for it. Nashi fruit is also really nice and expensive to buy and we get to eat it whi...

So heres a little update on how things are going in Shepparton. We got here on Monday, fresh faced and naive to be handed the numbers of a load of farmers who really needed pickers so we thought that we might as well give it a go as we dont have any work arranged till next week. Our campsite is pretty cool with a pool and a massive inflatable bouncy pillow shaped thing. So ahmed the lebanese australian pear farmer agrees we can start work on tuesday and he will p...