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Tuesday 5th January 2010
We arrived in Melbourne at around 2.10pm collected our baggage and then got the shuttle bus to our hostel Urban Central which was very nice. After we had checked in we had a coffee and then had a lie down for an hour before getting ready to meet Kirilee tonight for a meal. This lie down made us late again and plus we had to wait ages for the train to get us to Yarraville so we were only about an hour late whoops!!
We met Kirilee at her local for a drink first before we went for a meal where she told us all about her recent trip to New Zealand and gave us lots of tips of where to go and where not to go which was really useful. We then went to the Indian and had a meal my food and Kirilee's food was really good but Suzie wasn't very impressed with her Korma it was very tasteless. After we had eaten we went to go back to the pub for a drink but it was closed at 10.30pm we couldn't work out what that was all about!! So we went back to Kirilee's for a drink and she then dropped us back at the hostel.
Wednesday 6th January 2010
This morning once we had got up and sorted we went into the city centre to get some new flip flops from the shop we had brought our last ones from. We then grabbed some lunch at a French bakery before an exciting afternoon and evening of updating the blog and photo uploading as we were over 3 weeks behind with the blog. We were in the internet cafe for over four hours before we decided enough was enough as we were both pretty fed up by then as you can imagine.
We then went to Victoria night market for dinner which was great we just wished we'd been there a bit earlier so we could have had a proper look around but it was still nice. After we had eaten we walked to find a cafe that we had been to last time we were in Melbourne for a few glasses of wine to say Goodbye to Australia we are both very sad to be leaving :-(. It was then a taxi back to the hostel to go to bed but then Suzie suggested one last drink in the bar at the hostel which of course turned in a 3am bedtime again (We will get a proper night's sleep soon I hope!!!) but we met some great people so it was all good.
Thursday 7th January 2010
Early start this morning as we had to check out our room. We then had about two hours before we were getting picked up for the airport. So we went to use the internet as we needed to print out the flight details and needed to sort out some other stuff before heading back to the hostel. While we were waiting for the airport shuttle we bumped into Ashley who we had met in Vietnam and Malaysia who had been travelling with Lex and Gareth. She was also flying to Christchurch and we found out she was staying in the same hostel as us as well it's a small world.
Once at the airport we got checked in and then went through to departures expecting a big food court like the other airports we had been in as we were both starving as we hadn't eaten all day. Not Melbourne it had one cafe with a very limited menu and very small portions we were not impressed!! By the time we had eaten it was time to board, the plane was a little bit late leaving but nothing major so a very smooth flight all in all and we arrived into Christchurch at 11.20pm. GOODBYE Australia we will miss you but HELLO New Zealand!!!!
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