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Hi Everyone,
After leaving NZ we flew directly into Melbourne.
Being typically British the first thing we did when we arrived was book oursleves onto a Neighbours tour and to go to Neighbours night, Sad we know but it just had to be done. They were both actually really good, the night was a very drunken affair, met Libby, Dylan and Karl and luckily (or should we say unluckily) Karl sang with his band as well. The tour was fun Ramsay street is actually really tiny, had the standard photos outside all the houses and were caught up on current story lines, (Stingrays dead, fake doctor, all going on in Ramsay st).
Apart from Neighbours, Melbourne is a really cool city, did all the touristy stuff Victorian Markets, Rialto towers and of course sat on the free tram about a million times. St Kilda was a really nice seasidey suburb but unfortunately the weather was not beach weather in fact it was chucking it down so instead we had to sit in a cake shop and try their famous cakes.
When we werent wandering the town we did a lot of hanging about the hostel as we had met a really good group of people and it had a very comfy bar/common room, whilst we were doing this one day we got offered a job putting labels on envelopes for a few hours cash in hand, why not! It wasnt until we were down in the bar next door that the guy informed us they were shooting a film and then added it was a porno!!! Never found oursleves in such a strange situ before us labeling envelopes with some very obvious noises coming through the walls!!!!
After spending a week in Melbourne we decided we had better move on so we booked onto a 3 day tour of the Great Ocean Road to end up in Adelaide. It was brill had a good crowd on the bus and the views of the coast line were amazing. The 12 apostles at sunset were beautiful. We also saw wild koalas for the first time just sitting in the trees on the side of the road, they look so cute. �Once the road ended we headed into the Grampians where we did lots of hikes to some really great lookouts over the area, yes more walking!. After a long drive (OZ is just sooo big) we eventually ended the tour in Adelaide.
Take care
Tatey and Lou xxx
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