We expected it to be much busier in town, but it was the opposite and the tram was much quieter than normal! How odd! The weekends are much quieter here than at home! Our original plan was to go to Government house and the gardens surrounding it but we missed the tram stop!! Instead, we got off at the next one and went to see St Patricks Cathedral as it looked like an impressive building from the tram! There was a service going on so we didn't go inside. From th...

We decided to have a beach day today as we haven't had chance to chill at the beach for ages. We often stopped to see them and spent a short while there, but not a proper beach day! We caught the tram to St Kilda which is the nearest and nicest beach to us. It wasn't huge but we found a spot and sun 'baked' as the Aussies call it! It was pretty hot so we didn't last long so went for lunch in a café to cool down! We decided to abandon the beach as it was quite wi...

We're getting very lazy! The hostel provide free breakfast until 9.30, but we seem to struggle getting up so after breakfast we go back to bed for a bit! This means that we don't get going till nearly lunchtime some days! Oops! Anyhoo, we set off from the hostel and walked along the river towards the city. We followed it for quite a way, passing many impressive buildings and black swans! We found the botanical gardens and walked around them. We had a lovely walk ...

We wandered into town and caught the free tram round to the 'backpacker area' where we were assured that we would find a good deal on hiring a car! We had a mooch in a few places before settling on the cheapest, obviously! We are collecting another little Getz next Tuesday until Friday to do the great ocean road. We then headed back into town towards the shopping area and mooched through one of the shopping areas. We had Sushi for lunch and continued to mooch. ...

The bus journey wasn't too bad and we got into Melbourne at about 8 am. We only got about 3hours sleep so we were pretty tired! The coach was not as comfortable as the Canadian greyhound's, they were newer but less spacious. We decided to walk to the hostel as it was only about a 10-15 minute walk plus it was rush hour so the tram would have been busy. It was too early to check in to hostel but they stored our bags for us until we could check in. They let us th...