We arrived back in Sydney on Thursday morning and managed to lug our very heavy backpacks up the hill to Wakeup. Unfortunately, due to the fact that 70 American lesbians were moving in to OUR hostel, we could only stay one night and had to move into a hostel down the road. On Thursday we met up with Leigh and Shaun and ended up in Sidebar. To our delight 'Old Shaun' is back with a vengence! No more brow beaten Mr Nice Guy, he is officially not allowing hi...

We arrived in Canberra, after a 10 hour bus journey, to a lot of excitement. On one of the stops on the way from Melbourne a young couple with a baby got on the coach and said a teary goodbye to their family. When we got off at Canberra station there were police there waiting for them. After some major (yet subtle) earwigging we heard that the bloke had broken his parole and there was a warrant for his arrest! How rude! Natalie had a moment of foresight w...

Moved to St Kilda on Saturday and guess what..... yep you got it, it started to lash down (take cover its spitting!). We were going to have a night out but just ended up going to the bar downstairs - The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. We sat there until about 1am waiting for the Liverpool match to come on the TV - Nat had the glass lad harrassed telling him to get the match on - then we realised it was the wrong day, ooops! The hostel we were staying in was qui...

Early rise today - we're off on a day trip!! Our friendly guide Craig picked us up in the best minibus ever - it was the official Neighbours tour bus - get in!! After a hair-raising drive around the city picking up the other members of our group, we set off for the Great Ocean Road. Leaving Melbourne behind for the day, we drove through Geelong, where our very own Prince Charlie went to school for a couple of years. Our first stop on the Great Ocean Road wa...

We, along with a few others, were picked up at 1.30 by a crazy Australian in a minibus. Dazza, our surf dude/tour guide, introduced himself and then informed us that we might not necessarily meet Harold of Doctor Carl on this trip (Bummer!) before driving us around some of the better sights in Melbourne. First he took us to the Italian quarter where he filled us in on the Australian/Italian mafia activity in the area - ie 'family' owned restaurants, drugs...