Today I woke early and got myself sorted as I would be driving a long way today! I got in the car and drove along the road. My first stop was Lorne

So today I was up at 8am to get the tram into the city to fetch my hire car for the week! I was both excited but also very nervous at the thought of driving full stop!! Got to the car hire place filled out the necessary paperwork then they gave me the keys and directions to the garage. I was pretty shocked when I saw the car, I was expecting a very small Nissan Micra, instead I got a zooped up Ford Fiesta WT! When getting in the car though I realised that I had n...

Today was a lazy day! I spent part of the day at the free internet place printing out great ocean road itineraries. Had a couple of naps, did clothes washing, ate and that was about it! I knew I was in for a busy week and that I would be returning to St Kilda the week after so knew I wasnt missing out on much! Had an early night, not helped by the Sunday session that was happening downstairs though!

So I finally arrived at Melbourne at 7am!! I wasn't allowed to check into my hostel until 8am so I sat in Hungry Jack's (Ozzy version of Burger King) and had brekkie, lovely and greasy! Some elderly lady came and sat next to me and we had a chat about my travels. She then started singing some australian songs from her youth....am I a crazy person magnet?!! Anyway so after saying my goodbyes to her I hopped on a tram to my hostel, just in time for breakfast...ble...

Today I was checking out of my Sydney hostel ready to go to Melbourne at night! I was in mixed emotions about leaving, I was ready to leave Sydney as i felt I had seen everything but was sad about leaving the hostel and the friends I had made there. This is probably because in all my previous hostels I had stayed for 3 days at most whereas I stayed here for about 2 weeks in total! The sun was finally shining so I decided to head to Manly beach for the day. I got...