Ok so Disaster/Blessing in disguise happened yesterday...... The police showed up at the lovely flat we were renting in South Melbourne informing us that our flat mate Scott Feoria was to be evicted as had not being paying any for a long while and that he was actually a squatter now!! Gave the polie all the details we could about him an agreed to move out the next day.... Confronted Scott when he got home to which he lied saying it was a driving offence he did no...

Doing laundry laundrette style........ I might be living in a great new appartment in south Melbourne with Ronnie which has a 25m heated lap pool, tennis court and gym but there is no washing machine so I am exeriancing my first EVER laundrette experiance!! Also wearing my new aladin trousers I brought at St Kilda festival and enjoing a bottle of beer from the bottle shop round the corner. Oops my new travel towel has run into my once was white underwear rubbis...

St Kilda festival: A week if free live music on the week nights and beech vollyball with a big festival on the Sunday 7 stages with a variety of music with the main stage being on the grass just off the beech see photo above! Great day in the sunshine alrhought not quite like an English festival as a dry zone with actual police patroling checking peoples drinks to ensure no alcohol is consumed making a great family atmosphere but did mean we ate too much food ins...

Written a little in retro spect as since Rachel arrived in Melbourne and there is always someone elce to talk to blog writting has taken a back burner but hear I am back again!!! So highlights: Spent the week living on Paul's sofa which was really quite comfy with sheets and douvet etc. Just packing up your bed and clothes every day was a bit of a mission! On friday I spent the day getting quotes for my kite surfing kit was a trade between nice English guy of...

Survived 3 days at BASE hostel in St Kilda at first when I arrived I thought oh no what have a done surrounded by a bar full of 20 year olds with the girls dressed up the the nines with the addition of rope and stuff around there ankles and wrists! Note to self need to by some 'travelling accessories' to fit in the hostels!! Suprisingly it only took me a short while to make some friends, drunk goon (the Australian backpackers cheep wine if u can call it that ba...