Moved to St Kilda on Saturday and guess what..... yep you got it, it started to lash down (take cover its spitting!). We were going to have a night out but just ended up going to the bar downstairs - The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. We sat there until about 1am waiting for the Liverpool match to come on the TV - Nat had the glass lad harrassed telling him to get the match on - then we realised it was the wrong day, ooops! The hostel we were staying in was qui...

Early rise today - we're off on a day trip!! Our friendly guide Craig picked us up in the best minibus ever - it was the official Neighbours tour bus - get in!! After a hair-raising drive around the city picking up the other members of our group, we set off for the Great Ocean Road. Leaving Melbourne behind for the day, we drove through Geelong, where our very own Prince Charlie went to school for a couple of years. Our first stop on the Great Ocean Road wa...

We, along with a few others, were picked up at 1.30 by a crazy Australian in a minibus. Dazza, our surf dude/tour guide, introduced himself and then informed us that we might not necessarily meet Harold of Doctor Carl on this trip (Bummer!) before driving us around some of the better sights in Melbourne. First he took us to the Italian quarter where he filled us in on the Australian/Italian mafia activity in the area - ie 'family' owned restaurants, drugs...

We arrived in Melbourne at about 8.30 on Saturday morning after actually having slept for most of the journey down here - we must be getting used to this travelling lark! To our obvious delight, we have been put in a 14 bed dorm - the smell of feet is fragrant! The residents are unusual to say the least - either Asian or in a coma, apart from Sally the Tasmanian Devil, who has come over to volunteer for the Melbourne Commenwealth Games and proceeded to tell us ...