So we had a leisurely morning getting ready and eating breakfast before leaving at 11ish to meet our friend Rosie. Rosie lives near Melbourne and goes to uni here, but Vicky and I met her on a bus from Cambodia to Thailand, where she spent a week with us in Koh Tao (those of you who have been avid blog readers from the beginning should remember Rosie!). We saw a Krispy Kreme shop so we all bought a doughnut (calorific but very tasty) and then jumped on a tram to...

We got up on our first full day in Melbourne at about 9am after a good nights' sleep. There is free breakfast in the hostel so I had a couple of slices of toast before getting ready for the day. It is really sunny here and I think the weather is in the low 20s, so we put on jeans but we still got quite hot in the sun. We jumped on a tram into town and got of at a random stop (we had no idea where we were) and just wandered around. It has a different atmosphere ...

We got up and ready for about 9.30am. I had a sudden urge to try and eat healthily so I had muesli for breakfast and tea without sugar (I usually have 2, or 3 if I'm hungover!). The kids and Neil had gone to work and school so Sian took us to see the new parliament building. It seems strange that in such a new town there has already been the need for a new one! It was quite interesting to look around. In the house of representatives we listened in on a talk bei...

We had to get up early to get our Greyhound to Canberra which left at 9am. We arrived in Canberra at 1.30pm and weren't sure what to do as we had our backpacks with us until 4pm when the people we were staying with were coming to pick us up. We spent about an hour sitting in McDonald's reading magazines and then started to walk towards the parliament building, or so we thought. It turned out I had read the map wrong and we were walking out into the suburbs, so w...

We had a long lie in til midday which was nice. At midday we got up to get ready. This annoying Chinese guy in our room who stays out all night and gets in at 9am got annoyed with us for turning the light on, but I just said 'it's midday, we're getting ready and we'll turn it off when we leave'. That's assertive for me as I'm normally completely non-confrontational! By the time we'd got ready, and been online to book our Greyhound to Canberra and accommodation i...