Wednesday Today was Bad Luck Day. It was one of those days where everything decided to go wrong. First off, it was absolutely freezing. Our activity was going to explore getting a tattoo so we went up to Vic Market Tattoos. Unfortunately, the shop was shut when we got there. So we had to kill some time. Due to it being Bad Luck Day, the market wasn't even open so we couldn't kill time there. But we wandered down to Melbourne Central and had a look round the sh...

Tuesday Today we popped down to St Kilda for a stroll along the beach. It was freezing!! There wasn't much to see in the absence of the sun, but we saw some good cakes and walked along the pier. We tried to see water rats and penguins but there were none out. We then got the tram back up to Prahran for a walk about We went to the Prahran market which was excellent, and they had a petting zoo there with chickens, goats, lambs and an excellent sheepdog. There w...

Monday Today we began by getting a tram to Kings Domain, a nice park just south of Federation Square, which we saw on our bus tour already but wanted to get back and see on a sunny day. Was really sunny all morning and we had a good wander round the Shrine of Remembrance and the various gardens, there were also some good views over the water and of the city skyline too. After our bit of nature, we got on the free city circle tram, which are old fashioned styl...

Sunday Wine Tour! I think this weekend may just have been Hannah's dad's ideal - footy and a wine tour! Today, we went to the Yarra Valley to visit four wineries. The first one (Yering Station) was a nice place, but the wine wasn't great. However, the guy doing the tasting was totally hungover and ridiculous and missed the spitoon. And we still managed to drink our way through the list, all at 11am - good times! The next one we went to, Rochford, was a lovely ...

Saturday Today we went to the Aussie Rules at Melbourne Cricket Ground, total bargain at like $20 a ticket per adult. Also, Pat ran us down there and told us the rules which helped! Two other guys from the hostel also came along which was fun. Plus we sat with Pat's friend who screamed out in death metal style for the duration of the game. We saw Collingwood vs. Carlton, which was a good old rivalry, and made for a fairly energetic crowd, although the atmosphe...