We arrived in Melbourne at about 8.30 on Saturday morning after actually having slept for most of the journey down here - we must be getting used to this travelling lark! To our obvious delight, we have been put in a 14 bed dorm - the smell of feet is fragrant! The residents are unusual to say the least - either Asian or in a coma, apart from Sally the Tasmanian Devil, who has come over to volunteer for the Melbourne Commenwealth Games and proceeded to tell us ...

Despite our best efforts the drunken haze did not lift until we actually left Sydney. On Tuesday night we realised that Shaun's new bird (who looks like Cher but is actually called Sunny - honestly we nearly peed when we found out!) is actually a total weirdo! Serious mental case with a medical history as long as your face who happens to be sleeping in their room next door to ours! Padlocks at the ready girls! She told him she was 28 (yeah right 48 more like) ...

A quiet night in was planned for last night...til we got bored and decided to go downstairs to Side Bar to sample the cocktail jugs that were on offer! Took us 20 minutes to down 3 jugs between us (well, we had a lot of practice drinking buckets throughout Asia!). Most of the night was spent willing Shaun to "close the deal'' with the Dutch girl he was chatting up; once he was successful, we accidentely found ourselves in Scruffy's again, but for once, it was a ...

After a big night out on Friday, Becky and Shaun were too pathetic to go and watch the match! After finally managing to muster the strength to move, Nat and Lenny went to Paddy Maguire's - then came back because Len had left his ID - then to Scruffy Murphy's to watch the mighty reds! They made it in time for the second half, and luckily for the bouncers they never switched it off this time. Yesterday morning we were rudely awakened by an extremely 'intoxic...

We were really lucky with the people in our dorm when we arrived in Sydney, as we were sharing with 6 girls. Two Irish girls Catriona (the bounciest person you could ever wish to meet and Audrey (Catriona's rock). Two girls from Portsmouth Laura and Becca who were really nice but we didn't get to know them as well because they moved out. And other English girls travelling on their own, Rachel (who didn't come out much as she had no money until her mum and dad c...