The picture opposite it what this area is supposed to look like, however I have not been able to see the sea due to the incessant rain. Last night I actually took my flip flops off to walk home as they would have been washed away in the torrent running down the pavement otherwise. Today we have another weather warning for tonight, for exceedingly high winds as the cyclone approaches shore. The hostel was quite literally battening down the hatches, but fing...

Hello from the Sunshine Coast, so called due to the 300 days of sunshine they get every year, although the rain has been torrential ever since I arrived yesterday evening, lucky old me. Yesterday I flew on one of my bargain basement Virgin Blue flights from Melbourne to Proserpine, which was the smallest airport I have ever been to anywhere in the world. When we landed we walked from the tarmac, through a small hut and round to the side where they had dropp...

The 6 of us decided to go back to the Australian Open to support Tim Henman in his match against Nikolay Davydenko and I really wish I hadn't bothered. We were up early to get to the arena, as we had to queue to buy tickets, which we did with ease and we even managed to get almost the same seats as last time. Before leaving the hostel I had to pack and store my backpack ready to fly later in the day. The lads from my dorm, as well as some others from the h...

The plan yesterday was to go and lie on the beach, but it turned out to be really windy and cloudy, so we were only there for about 30 mins - still enough time for a dip though. Today I booked to go on a bus tour to the Great Ocean Road, which picked me up from the hostel at 0700 and headed into central Melbourne to meet the rest of the group. We drove out through Geelong and Anglesea until we hit the coast at Bell's Beach, where we stopped briefly for a co...

Yesterday was spent at the 100th Australian Open Tennis Championship with Becky, Jen, Siobhan and 2 friends of theirs from home, Kate and Steve. We were up early and at the arena just after the gates opened at 1000, having got the tram into town and back out. We had ground passes, which allowed us access to all courts except the main Rod Laver Arena, so we headed for the 2nd court in the Vodafone Arena. Once there we spent ages faffing and trying to find seats...