So after leaving Melbourne and the shepherd family behind, we headed in land on a 4 hour train journey and arrived in proper bush land red dusted Echuca. The destination was Echuca Backpackers working Hostel, which was meant to provide work for all rent paying guests. Unfortunately for us, the mixture of the Harvest being late and thus being no fruit to pick, and the landlord being a total first class p****meant that the "working" Hostel quickly turned into a...

It all started with a pizza shop and an idea..... The rota went up and we had disappointingly few shifts for the week ahead. "Let's go camping" and so it began. What started as a 2day camping trip turned into a let's hire a campervan, sack off work for a week and drive the great ocean road road trip!! I have to mention at this point that Nic's brother Matt was vital to making this all happen as he generously contributed to our camper costs! So we were off with v...

So we have been in Melbourne for exactly a month today. The weird Asian day to day shinanigans seem a distant memory and that sweet sweet taste of Orange Fanta only visits me in my dreams.... We arrived in Melbourne at around stupid o'clock in the morning after an overnight Quantas flight from Singapore. Both so grateful to be on a proper plane after all our experiences in the Philippines and AirAsia winged prisons. It was amazing to be greated by Michele, who ...