After our week in Melbourne we headed North to visit Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory - according to our guidebooks it's a place a lot of visitors miss out due to a lack of personality, but we have really enjoyed our time here! On the drive up we stopped for lunch in the Victorian town of Glenrowan, which is the town where Ned Kelly was eventually captured - it's full of old buildings and themed cafes, but the food was really good. We then had a quick...

We spent a week in Melbourne and, so far, it is the best city that we have visited. It's quite busy - 4 million people live there - but there is so much going on and so much to see, it has a really great feel to it. On our first full day we left the car at our hotel and took a tram into the CBD to explore. We started at Federation Square, which isn't actually a square shape, where there were loads of outdoor cafes and a screen showing the tennis - it had a really...

We knew before we came over here that Australia is a very empty country, but we didn't realise quite how empty it really is until we started on our drive across to Melbourne - it's a journey of over 3000km, so it took us quite a long time! 8 days of driving, and once we left Perth the only towns we actually stayed in were smaller than Guernsey! We didn't actually go to Adelaide this time round as we are going there later on in our trip, but still that gives you s...

We've spent the last couple of weeks house/dog sitting in Perth, and it was lovely to be in a proper house for Christmas to we could cook a proper Christmas dinner and skype home - even though it was really weird celebrating Christmas when it was around 35 degrees! We haven't really done anything special, it's just been good to relax and settle down for a bit, and make use of the proper internet while we have the chance. We have, however, planned and booked the r...

We're back in Perth now for the final time before we leave WA for good in January. For our first 4 nights we were staying in a hostel in the city, so we made use of the free bus service to do some last minute shopping for Christmas, got ourselves some good bargains (even though we only have each other to buy presents for!). We also made use of our free time to finally visit Caversham Wildlife Park, which is a wildlife park in the north of Perth that only houses A...