After a good nights sleep, I got up and walked all around central Melbourne. Really nice city... the hustle and bustle of a good city but a little less crazy than Sydney!! After seeing the sights and riding the trams I then headed down to meet my old housemate and colleague Rob at Virgin Active Melbourne. He showed me around and I saw exactly how rubbish VA in the UK was compared to where he worked now!! That night we met at the MCG for my first AFL (Australia...

The mammouth journey done, I arrived in Melbourne at about 11pm. Having completely forgotten that the Grand Prix had been earlier that day (before our delay in Cairns me and Tom had planned on being here and going to it!), I searched round a few hostels that had no rooms. Eventually, after a fair walk, I found somewhere with a room.... at $50 for the night!!! Ah well... just paid it because I didn't think I could be too picky!!!! Went to bed with an early start p...