Hi Everyone, Tuesday was a bit of a quiet day. Managed to sort out a car for our Great Ocean Road trip in the morning - yes they actually let us have one, lol!. We are going to be driving around in a Toyota Croalla (automatic no less!) for 5 days - just hope all the bags fit. After a quick coffee and a banana bread at Red Nine we headed off to the cinema because it was cheap day! Went to see the new Johnny Deep film - Sweeny Todd, I thought it was rubbish! In ...

Hi everyone, So Saturday was Australia Day. We left the hostel just before lunch and wandered down to Federation Square to watch the women's final of the tennis. It was very warm (over 30C) so we found a spot in the shade to watch it from! After that we caught a tram down to the Docklands and there was a countdown of the top 100 Aussie tunes from the last year. We chilled there for a bit then watched a Showboat (booze cruise!) come in - entertaining as lots of ...

G'day Everyone, Spent the week exploring Melbourne, and loving every second of it. On Wednesday we went to the Australia Open for day 10. The sun shone all day which was a bonus. We watched several matches. The first we saw was Pat Cash/John Fitzgerald (AUS) vs. Wayne Ferreire (RSA)/Wally Masur (AUS), it was quite a commical match because it was just a legends game. The Aussie's won so we heard some Aussie chants. We then watched a couple of womens double matc...

Alrighty Everyone! We left Coogee on Friday and went back to the YHA. Another ordingary day weather-wise so we watched American Gangster at the cinema. Decided to sample Chinese in Chinatown in the evening then webt back for an early night. Saturday got up at 6am to meet the bus around the corner at 7am. Met Jane our driver and 20 other passengers, most were young European backpackers. We weren't sorry to leave a wet & windy Sydney behind! 1st stop was Can...

Hi Everyone,Been in Coogee this week, very chilled out and relaxed but the weather hasn't been so great. Our hostel The Wizard of Oz has been really nice. Quite small so we have got to meet more people. Sharing a room with some really friendly girls, including Irish girls who talk in their sleep! Literally a 5 minute walk from Coogee beach, which is a nice sheltered bay, but not many waves so not as many surfers! Saturday was a pretty chilled out day, did boring ...