The journey down to Melbourne was horribly uncomfortable, and when we arrived at about 8am we had about an hours walk to our hostel-i miss the car already! The hostel was quite nice-the rooms were very nice ad we had a flat screen tv, but the kitchen was disgusting-there were flies everywhere and birds flying in to eat off of everyone's tables. After we'd cooked one meal there we decided that 3 nights there was enough. We've moved to another hostel which is mor...

Our last day in Sydney was spent being lazy on the hostel terrace and then heading to Coogee beach for the afternoon. It took a few hours to get to Canberra, including a detour to McDonalds, and we got here around half past 10. We checked in at the YHA for two nights as tonight was fully booked, but luckily we managed to book on tonight's night bus to Melbourne and find a hostel for 3 nights-which has it's very own cinema! We haven't been too impressed with the...

So our last day in NZ/first day in Oz turned out to be a bit of a disaster! We had quite a lazy morning and killed time until we went to drop our car off at about 1. We got charged $350 for a little chip in the windscreen that we thought we were covered for under 'wear and tear', but apparently this was not the case. The worst thing is it was impossible to avoid as the roads are so shoddy and most of them have not been covered. The day got even worse when we ar...

Invercargill was very nice, though we didn't really do anything too exciting apart from get a Chinese takeaway and go to the cinema to watch 'Rock n Rolla' which wasn't too bad at all! From there we headed to Dunedin, which is meant to be a Scottish town, although apart from the gift shops and a few of the buildings we couldn't really tell. We stayed in a little hostel just out of town which had a resident dog and cheap rooms, as the yha was fully booked. We had ...

Friday night we went out for dinner at a thai restaurant and then went to a bar called minus 5-which is literally minus 5 (or 7 when we were there!) degrees, but we were given a coat and gloves and a cocktail included in the package. Everything is made from ice-the walls, the seats, the bar and even the glasses we had our drinks in! They had lots of ice sculptures of rudby players and maori masks- It was definitely the prettiset bar we've been in and was very coo...