Well we woke up - late - feeling a bit sorry for ourselves and carried on through the Snowy Mountains and along the Snowy River. Still feeling a bit tiddly from the night before we stopped to help an elderly couple who'd broken down at the side of the road and ended up driving the ladt into the nearest town for a garage. Our new-found friend - Daphne - then had to endure an hour's drive with a group of half-dead backpackers demanding that she had her photgraph ...

Right then. The Oz Bus left Melbourne and moved towards Sydney via Wilson's Promontory, through Foster and into Snowy River Country. We drove through the Tarra Valley and walked down to the river through a cool-tempered rainforest that was full of more blackened trees. From there we walked along a stretch of a 90mile beach and oninto the Snowy Mountain range - and that was just the morning!! The bus was friendly enough but nobody had really spoken much to eac...

Hiya!!! I'll probably struggle with this next lot of journal entries. a)because I haven't written anything in ages and b)because the computer I'm on has a broken keyboard and mouse and I'm short on time. Well I extended my stay in St Kilda because I needed some chill-out time and I met a group of people that were too much fun to leave behind. I saw the sites, went drinking and sun-bathed (Mum - would you believe I now have a tan that would rival even y...

Well I've caught up with my sleep and re-adjusted to being in a Western country and everything is hunky-dory. I'm staying in St Kilda, Melbourne and it's a really lovely place. I spent my first full day ambling around and checking out the beach, the mariner - it's all really pretty and the weather is still great so I'm a happy bunny. Last night I went for dinner with a Canadian girl I met in the hostel and we had a drink and watched a band in the bar i...

Helloooo I've decided that motorbikes are the only way to travel!!! Emily, the girl from my hostel, and I blagged our way into renting two bikes for the day today and had a fantastic time. I've never been on a motorbike before - not even on the back as a nervous passenger - but I persuaded the shop that I had years of experience and off I went. Emily had done it before and patiently waited whilst I wobbled down the street after her at about 25 miles an ho...