Up early this morning, i got a lift to the station with claires dad, and got the train back to southern cross in melbourne. went for a coffee and some yummy fruit toast, then set about my errands! burnt my photos to cd and posted them home, bought a tshirt for claires friend siobhans birthday (from claire) and one for myself! its a vintage winnie the pooh tshirt! it amuses me because it just says 'pooh' across the front!! hehe!! also bought some higher fa...

Well. i woke to the sight of eddies bare bum opposite me, which didnt worry me too much, until he turned over to lie on his back. i closed my eyes and threw a duvet over him, saving his dignity!!i went and did my RSA course, quite ironic as i was swaying with hangoverness!! mostly common sense, how to deal with drunk people etc, but a lot of interesting stuff about australian law, fines and liabilites etc. I passed!!went to E55 (internet cafe) and spent about 3 h...

Got up really late, not quite sure how we managed to sleep in so much! eventually left at around 1pm!! i went to the Australian school of hospitality to book myself in for an RSA course (responsible service of alcohol) tomorrow, and then went and had lunch at a chinese place - its was vile!!! big bowl of noodles in salty water with boney chicken bits - yuck! met up with the others (including rachel and nicola) and went to the melbourne aquarium, which was reall...

Me and eddy got up mega early to get the free toast and tea (us backpackers will do anything for a freebee!!) then showered and got the others up.We all jumped on the tour bus which is free from our hostel, which took us round the docklands, through Williamstown where there are some lovely houses, and round St Kilda bay. We saw a restaurant called The Titanic which actually rocks like a boat and all the staff are dressed as boat stewards!! Also drove round part o...

Well we spent the day in albury, went to the cinema to see 'Stranger than fiction' and bummed around, then got on the greyhound at about 5:30pm to go on to melbourne. Arrived at around 9:30pm, and walked to our hostel - Hotel Bakpak, which we'd heard some pretty bad reviews about but it seems alright!! Went and played pool in Roo Bar under the hostel, Eddy lost his bet that he could be teetotal until friday!! he tried to hide the pint behind a packe...