Hello for the last time from Melbourne. Seems weird that we're about to leave. We (well Gem really) packed our backpacks this morning as its our last night in the apartment tonight, v sad!! We're going to stay with Jed and Amelia for our last couple of days here which will be brilliant. We've had a really good week or so. We've both done about a million hours each at work so the bank balance is slowly recovering and we've found time to have a bit of fun. Last S...

Happy New Year everybody!!! Hope you all had a good one and didn't start the New Year with a headache. We had a great time. Gem was originally meant to be working on New Year but that would have been rubbish so she begged her boss for the night off and after some serious moaning he crumbled and gave her the night off, hurrah! We thought we'd get in the party mood on New Years Eve with a nice visit to Melbournes old jail, what a creepy place. It was the jail whe...

Happy Christmas readers. We've had a brilliant few days, definitely a Christmas we're not going to forget. Its all been a bit surreal and it hasn't felt particularly Christmassy, its really just been one massive party. The strangeness started on Christmas Eve, Gem was working and I was planning on having an early night, honestly! But that plan went out the window because a couple called Jed and Amelia that we had met in Fiji who live in Melbourne invited me to th...

Hiya everyone. Not going to be a very long journal entry this time because we haven't done a great deal since the last journal. We've both been putting some pretty long hours at work so the bank balance isn't looking quite as depressing as it was a few weeks ago. When we're not at work we've filled our days with a combination of sightseeing and window shopping (Gemmas choice). Unfortunately we haven't been able to avoid the cricket. We've taken a fair bit of st...

Hiya everybody. We've had such a good week. Definitely think this has been Gems best week of the trip so far. The Melbourne v Sydney match was awful, it finished 0-0 and at times it was like watching Tranmere!! Great stadium though!! Other than that we had a fairly quiet weekend, Gem worked and I read books, went to the outdoor pool and had a few beers. Monday night was a very different story though, we had got ourselves tickets for the Neighbours trivia night wh...