I can't believe it's Wednesday already! Christine left Perth this morning to go to Melbourne. She begins the 2 day train journey back the way we came today and she will arrive on Melbourne on Friday. Hopefully she won't spend all her time in the smoking carriage talking to the weirdos! Although if she finishes all her ciggies on the journey she may give up before we see her again - go Christine!! She is going to stay with her friend Emma, who she met last year. T...

Hey everyone. Thankfully we managed to get a heater and some extra blankets for our room so we haven't been so cold at night! I know we are in Australia but is that any excuse for not having heating - they do have winters too! Anyway, enough moaning! :0) Yesterday we spent the day in Kings Park, which is huge! Got to see some lovely views of the city, lots of wild parrots, some kookaburras and lots and lots of parkland! It was a fun day, most of which w...

G'day maties! It is 8pm here just now and us girlies have just about thawed out from a freezing night of sleep! When we arrived here yesterday they were a bit disorganised as it was early in the morning so were weren't given warm blankets or anything. We asked for some later on and they were like "yeah, there's stuff over there so help yourselves", which we did so we took 2 blankets each. Once we were upstairs we realised the others had duvets and blankets but...

Well over the past few days since we left Sydney I have learned that the hardest thing about backpacking is ... backpacking!! Seriously, how can people carry those things about with them for days on end! The furthest we had to go with ours was about 800 yards from the hostel to the train station and believe me it was a bit of a struggle!! And it took me a long time to work out where all the straps etc went and what fastened to what! Dad - the guy in the shop may ...