Melbourne - Our newest favourite city! Sorry we haven't written for a few days, we had gotten a little behind with the blog and so bringing it up-to-date along with exploring a fantastic new city has been a job! We arrived in Melbourne on Saturday night, checking in to the hostel at around 8pm. Almost immediately, we knew the hostel would be perfect for us as it looked clean, modern, big and friendly with lots to see and do. After a quick explore of the buildi...

Just what the doctor ordered Awake not-so bright but definitely early, we made the 45 minute walk to the medical centre both feeling tired after a bad nights sleep in a cold and gloomy room. Hoping for a quick visit, Rach went to see Dr Tan first (half an hour before Rich) hoping for a quick prescription of antibiotics to clear up her foot which was now looking rather orange! Dr Tan was helpful and rather funny even though he didn't mean to be. When showing him ...

Fish and Chips in Fremantle! Today we decided we would go and spend some time in Fremantle again, but not before going to find the nearest medical centre to try and have a doctor look at Rach's foot infection (after advice from two pharmacists), aided by some very rough directions from the hostel receptionist. After the walk of 30 minutes or so in to Cottesloe, we reached the town centre and quickly found Cottesloe Medical Centre. The doctor's surgery was based...

Welcome to Oz! Around midnight on Saturday night, we finally fulfilled a dream of ours - we arrived in Australia! Perth to be exact, and at first it was all a bit of a culture shock. Firstly after the super-quick arrival and departure at Singapore, not to mention the pristine airport, we arrived to long queues at a woefully under-staffed Perth airport. Baggage claim was also a scene of chaos, with customs queues snaking around quite a small baggage claim carous...

Goodbye to Singapore And so it came to our last day in a city that we had few expectations of; the city the taxi driver urged us to leave straight away because it was boring, a destination that one travel agent said we 'shouldn't bother with'... Aside from the fact that our stopover broke up the journey to Perth with welcome rest from planes, Singapore had been amazing and we didn't want our time there to end. We found ourselves with a soft spot for the city an...