Today was pretty uneventful as it mainly consisted of a ten hour bus journey from Melbourne to Canberra! We left the apartment just after 6am and 2 hours sleep - today was not going to be fun! Our bus left at 7:15am and we slept for most of the morning, only waking up when the driver interrupted us to give us information or instructions…which he liked to do a lot! He seemed to love the sound of his own voice and explained to us in great detail how to use the a...

Today was our last day in Melbourne, before we get the bus to Canberra tomorrow. It feels like we've been in and around Melbourne for months and we feel like we know the place pretty well now. There were still a few things we'd planned to do in Melbourne that we hadn't got round to, but since we only had today we decided the top two were to visit Captain Cook's Cottage and the Old Melbourne Gaol. After breakfast we walked to Fitzroy Gardens on the outskirts of t...

Today we were going on a trip to Phillip Island on a wildlife tour. The highlight of Phillip Island is the penguin parade each night. We'd watched the 'Penguin Island' documentary by Rolf Harris a few years ago and were both excited to go to the island which is a colony for around 50,000 little penguins! We set our alarm to get up early-ish, and after breakfast stopped at a nearby internet café to print some stuff out that we needed. At 11:20 we were picked up ...

Today we slept late after the night before and hung around the apartment for most of the day - still don't know why we decided to go out at 2am! Laura and I had rallied a bit and decided to go out for tea to one of the restaurants in the Greek Quarter on Lonsdale Street, which was pretty close to our apartment. We eventually decided on one called Tsindos which has been run by three generations of one Greek family since the 70s (or so the informative menu said!)....

Today Mam and Dad were setting off at 6am for the airport to catch their flight to Sydney airport, to catch their flight to Sydney. We'd arranged for T and Laura to pick us up on their way to our swanky apartment for 4 nights in the centre of Melbourne! We'd got up early to say goodbye to Mam and Dad, then went back to sleep for a few hours before packing up and checking out at 10am. We had to wait around a while in reception before T and Laura arrived to collect...