3 days seems like such a long time but it seriously flew by whilst on this amazing island! It was a fairly early start being picked up at half 7. I was pretty worried that the weather was going to be rubbish as it had been for the previous week and thunderstorms had been predicted for this week :-S. Still we got a ferry over to the island and then jumped onto a 4x4 truck that could carry nearly 40 people. Soon enough we were going up and down a road called the ...

Our tour along the Great Ocean Road was behind us and now we had the delights of Melbourne to explore... Merit and Charlotte were staying at the same hostel (Urban Central) as me so we jumped in a taxi and got settled in at the hostel. It seemed like a nice hostel, clean, max of 4 people in a dorm and free breakfast! One of the first things we did in Melbourne was to prebook tickets for the new Harry Potter film. We watched that on the day it came out, looking ...

Time to leave Adelaide and South Australia behind me and begin my 3 day journey to Melbourne! I jumped on the bus early Monday morning and although I don't know what I was expecting, I was at least hoping there would be a few more Backpackers. Out of the 13 on the tour only 3 of us were in our 20's, the other two were Merit (Germany) and Charlotte (Holland). Still everyone was really friendly so it wasn't a problem. First stop was a German town just outside Ade...

Well here I am! The other side of the world in South Australia! The flight wasn't too bad, had two seats on the plane to myself which was a novelty. Customs even washed my trainers for me as I'd been trekking with them in Thailand and Vietnam. I got minibus to my hostel and arrived there around lunchtime. First thing I needed to do was find a guidebook and work out what on earth I was going to do for the next 2 months! I started to realise I knew very little abo...

Not a massive amount to report on as I was only here for a couple of days before my flight to Oz. I had a day of flights to get here, one from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City and then another to Singapore from there. There was a 6 hour gap between my two flights so I was pretty tired by the time I made it to Singapore. I took the equivalent of the tube from the airport to my hostel (the first time I'd booked some accommodation in advance for quite a while!). There ...