Our final day in Australia! We got up early to check out at 9.30am, but then spent the next couple of hours sorting out our laundry and reading in the sun on the terrace. Hannah, Vick and Anna had booked to go on a Neighbours tour to Ramsay Street at 12.30pm, so we got a tram into town and met Anna and Jon at a cafe next door to the Neighbours shop. As Jon and I weren't going on the Neighbours tour, we went to the Disney exhibition at ACMI, the moving image mu...

Today I went on a trip to Phillip Island. My grandma had told me I had to go and see the penguins here so I made sure I booked a trip. The others didn't come with me but I still had a great day! I was picked up at around 10am, and was the first on the bus. The guide was called Lee, and he was training up the driver, Stephen. Lee was really boisterous and definitely keen to make everybody have a 'crazy' day. He was just on the right side of annoying though so he ...

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...