Checking out of our nice private room in our nicely located hostel was hard- the only fairly cheap hostel we could find was in the centre of Melbourne, surprisingly, but I guess it's easy enough to go to St. Kilda, or any other suburb we would want to go. Once we had found Melbourne International Backpackers, I went to Officeworks to print my resume, and just as I was about to head out to hand them out, Amanda (the Swedish girl from Reef) arrived at the host...

When I was discharged, we got on the tram to our new hostel, where we just chilled out, watched TV and had multiple naps (we were both very tired from being up most of the night). All I felt like I could stomach in the evening was a naan bread, but Alice felt like we deserved some peanut butter ice cream, which was very nice but a whole mug-ful was probably a tiny bit too rich to stomach. There was a 'Would You Rather' TV show on which was quite fun to play along...

I had decided that it would probably be a good idea to do my Victoria Responsible Service of Alcohol course today, as you can't do it online like you can in Queensland, and there wouldn't be courses over the weekend, and then I wouldn't have to wait until Monday to then be able to apply for jobs. Since we weren't sure where we were going to stay tonight at that point, we decided Alice would stay in the airport and look after the bags/ apply for jobs online, and I...

We got up early to Skype Caitlyn, and then visited the farmer's market on today. As you may have expected, the stalls were selling quite hippy foods like mixed sprout salads, tempeh and we tried some of the cocao balls. I liked the sound of the macadamia and cacao spread, but didn't feel it was worth the $8 for a jar. We had a look round some of the shops, and then had a fleeting visit to the beach (I think it was 8 minutes maximum) before we retrieved our bags a...

The pile I had sorted out of stuff to leave in Surfer's (so that I could fit everything in my rucksack) kept getting smaller and smaller as I persuaded myself that I did actually need shorts/ pyjama tops/ etc, so that by the time we left it looked a bit pathetic. Hopefully some of the stuff goes to a good home though as it's time to start repaying the 'free stuff' benefits. I think the driver of the bus to Byron Bay was new to his job- it seemed like we were goi...