Melbourne 2nd - 6th March 2006 Arrive in Melbourne to a roasting hot day and in our usual style decide to go into town (on the tram) and walk about in the hot sun. We see a lot of the preparations for the Commonwealth Games (which we will miss by about a week) along the Yarra river and then have a stroll around the botanical gardens. Australia certainly does botanical gardens very well and seems to have one in every town. We spend a lot of time on Fri...

Victor Harbour & The Great Ocean Road 23rd February - 2rd March Stu decides to go for his 3rd haircut of the trip, it's great as he can actually communicate to the Italian emigrant (well sort of and short back and sides can't be that difficult to understand can it? At least I didn't have to resort to hand signals as per Laos and Vietnam). Then we are off on our great adventure towards and along the Great Ocean Road, picking up our Toyota Corolla (pre...