This week was our last week at the gym. We have now swam and ‘gymmed’ for a whole month every week day and are feeling very fit, although I am also feeling slightly cross as I only lost 1 kilo of fat and Vincent has put on 5 of muscle. The gym was a very friendly and cheap way to take up our time and has proven to do us a lot of good, we both have more energy and feel good for it. My time for doing 20 lengths got down to 15 minutes and Vincent lifted 65kgs in...

Another week of gym for us this week and the pool was still closed so it was onto the machines and working hard. This weekend James took us to see kangaroos. We drove for nearly 3 hours to a place called Lake’s gate, which seemed like ages and most of the scenery looked like Sheffield, and it drizzled so when we arrived to find our picnic spot was a bench that was rather wet we weren’t too happy. I had fallen asleep as usual in the car and the only wild life...

This week we got right into our gym routine, the pool was closed for Easter. We are having healthy rice and veggies for lunch each day and are both feeling tired but happy. Hayden had the week of so he came with us to the gym and gave us both some new exercises to do and showed us how to use some new machines too, he used to be a professional body builder so he has loads of good advice.

Today, after some research and trial visits, we chose a gym. We have decided that as this country is quite expensive and as James and Hayden are at work in the week we will go to the gym every week day to get ourselves even more healthy and keep ourselves occupied. Vincent is still looking for a job but with the economic climate here being as it is there isn’t anyone hiring. We visited countless bars, restaurants and clubs to see if anyone wanted anyone but no ...

Melbourne. It is quite like Bournemouth! It’s funny to be the furthest away from home that we can get yet it feels more like home than anywhere else. We spent the first week relaxing and getting to know Hayden, James’ flat mate, as James was off on a business trip. We looked around the town centre and found all the usual shops and a train system rather like the tube. The town has a tram system as well which is quite useful and you can buy one ticket and use t...