Hi, The Virgin Blue flight up from Sydney was excellent and I got upgraded which meant I had masses of leg room and a whole row to myself - excellent!! When I arrived at the airport I got met by the Calypso Hostel bus which then whisked me to my accomodation at the Calypso Hostel!! - the Calypso was an odd hostel (incidentally next to the Cairns Red X branch - which can never be a good thing as British Red X branchs have a habit of being put in the dankest...

Hi, Canberra has a reputation for being only porn and politics, I do know that the latter one is certainly true! - It has a man made city that is not that old and was only built to settle a dispute between Melbourne and Sydney as to which city should be capital! During the day I visited the Australia War memorial which was very big and grand, as well as the National Museum of Australia which was very interesting and lots of hands on exhibits. After...

Hi, The YHA at Foster was fantastic - it was completely desserted so we had the whole place to oursleves!! - went into town for a meal and I had kangaroo (again!!). In the morning we went into Wilson's Prom national park where I saw my first roo!! - there was hundreds of them about I also a couple of wallabies and a wombat!!! - Kit was particulalry excited by the wombat as it was the first one he has seen in the wild (apparently they are quite rare!), we had...

Day 1 Hi, Day 1 in Melbourne Kit and I did the usual sight seeing stuff, such as the old jail and a ride on the historic trams (pictured). Melbourne has a great cafe culture and, like most of oz, is very multicutural, so we had french crossiants for brekky, then some chinese pork pies for brunch (in China Town) and then a Turkish Kebab for Lunch!! I liked Melbourne as it had a very relaxed atmosphere - especially the St. Kilda Beach district which ...

Day 1 Hi, Ok, after one hell of a jounrey I finally made it to Melbourne - the ozzie Virgin Blue (their version of sleazyjet) was something else!! - at the end we were given a thought for the day - it was like something off of Wogan! Anyway I met Kit at the airport and we headed off on the Great Ocean Road - how spectacular!!! The Great Ocean Road was built by servicemen who returned from WW1 with no jobs to go back to, and was built as a memorial to ...