It's been a while since the last blog update so thought I'd add one before we depart for New Zealand next Monday. Melbourne has been good fun and it's been great staying at Benzo's and not having to share dorms/facilities with any old jonny foreigner! The weather here has been indifferent for us but generally pretty hot most days, just not Speedo weather! This is a place where you really can have 4 seasons in a day. Christmas day here was very different to back ...

G'day from Melbourne! I think the last message I posted was in Brisbane, so I'll try to recite the highlights of our trip since then. Happy reading... After Melbourne we went to Byron Bay via Nimbin, which was a very interesting place full of interesting people functioning on interesting substances, if you know what I mean! We actually picked a couple of hitch hikers up about 5K from Nimbin and they guided us in. They were both in their 50's but they looked in t...