Hiya everyone. Not going to be a very long journal entry this time because we haven't done a great deal since the last journal. We've both been putting some pretty long hours at work so the bank balance isn't looking quite as depressing as it was a few weeks ago. When we're not at work we've filled our days with a combination of sightseeing and window shopping (Gemmas choice). Unfortunately we haven't been able to avoid the cricket. We've taken a fair bit of st...

Hiya everybody. We've had such a good week. Definitely think this has been Gems best week of the trip so far. The Melbourne v Sydney match was awful, it finished 0-0 and at times it was like watching Tranmere!! Great stadium though!! Other than that we had a fairly quiet weekend, Gem worked and I read books, went to the outdoor pool and had a few beers. Monday night was a very different story though, we had got ourselves tickets for the Neighbours trivia night wh...

Right then, journal time! This will be an update with a difference though as for the first time since we left England we haven't done anything particularly exciting, but its actually been quite nice. We're still in the same hostel and despite being in a 6 bed dorm we've had the room to ourselves for the past 6 nights. We think it may have been a reward for having to put up with 3 very noisy, slightly stinky, Japanese rappers for the first few nights. Unfortunatel...

G'day from Australia everybody!!! We arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday and we love it here. The city is fantastic, theres more shops than you can shake a stick at so Gems in heaven and the sun is shining so i'm happy. We can't believe advent has started, it was 29 degrees here yesterday and thats just not very Christmassey is it?! We've met a great crowd of people in our hostel and we've had a couple of good nights out, in fact I had a very successful night out on ...