8.2.11 After a busy morning doing some admin and sorting out the rest of our travel plans we made the most of our free ticket to Melbourne Aquarium. Definitely worth a visit but we are not sure if it worth the $38 to do so. The best bit was definitely the feeding of the turtles, rays and BIG fish. The divers got accosted by the cheeky little turtles and they were given, what looked to be, very loving hugs by the rays. For a moment we all wished we could be in ...

The Great Ocean Road At 7:30am we were on our merry way to experience the famous Great Ocean Road. It is one of the world's most beautiful and naturally maintained secrets. Every twist and turn exposes you to stretches of broad, uninterrupted beaches, dramatic coastlines and the lush rainforests of the Otway Ranges. Ok so we copied that bit of the website but it is very true. It was a lovely, if busy day! We stopped off at Bells Beach,one of Australia's famo...

5.2.10 We Arrive in Melbourne - pouring rain and floods in the Western suburbs . Trying to avoid a hurricane and we walk right into a flood. We were, however, pleasantly surprised by the three people offering help at 6:30am in the morning in the pouring rain. We loved Melbourne already. We find the hostel after wading through what seemed like two foot of water for 20minutes. It was 7am. With 6 hours before we could check in we amused ourselves as best as poss...

Adieu NSW, G'day Melbourne4.2.10 Checked out of The Outback Lodge and with a fist full of deposit money we made our way to the Manly Travel Centre. We were out of there on the first 12 hour bus to Melbourne. It only took Maz an hour to lose all the tickets and paperwork. Thank God the Australian's really don't care about such things and let us on the bus and in the hostel anyway. Nothing like keeping us on our toes... The bus didn't leave until 7pm so we mad...

1.2.11 - 4.2.11 We had to hatch a new plan and it took us a couple of days and a couple of glasses of wine to get there. While we were having our second meltdown there were a few highlights... On the 2nd we went to Sydney - Maz was wearing someone else's flip-flops (Amy's) and it took her at least an hour to realise - the klepto continues. We then signed up for Wwoofing, got excited by an offer to work in a Yoga retreat and then realised it was in the middle ...