Hi everyone - well I've gone forward 3 hours in time and arrived in Melbourne. Chris picked me up from the airport and it was really great to see her again. I'm actually staying with Chris and Bruce and they have made me feel so very welcome and thrown plenty of wine down my throat already - it's going to be good here. They have a great home and it's really nice to stay at a home rather than a hostel and to be with old friends. I have my very own room wit...

So, where was I last? Margaret River, wine tour, educational, sophiscated? Believe me, it was. Got picked up from my hostel on Thursday morning and there was only 4 of us on the tour and we were really lucky as we had Cathy the owner of Wine for Dudes as our guide. Now Cathy can't be older than 30 and she knows more about wine than anyone I've met and her enthusiasm on the subject was infectious. We visited 5 wineries and tasted 40 wines including a really g...

OK, never judge a book by its cover. Bunbury may not have been a picture postcard setting (and I've seen so many here) and on my last posting I was bored with waiting to check in my hostel so I was a bit putout, but... Bunbury gave me one of the coolest hostels I've stayed in, it provided the best fish meal I've ever had, it had some of the friendliest locals I've met AND it gave me dolphins - 3 of them. Bunbury you are a little star. Ok, now I'm in Marg...

Well this morning, I picked up Ralph, a cool, smooth & sleek operator with a big engine, a comfortable seat and a stero banging out tunes from Triple J Radio station and we travelled in harmony together out of Perth towards the wine and surf centre of WA, namely Margaret River. Right now we're both in Bunbury - this place is a bit dire something like Newman by the sea and we would escape but I've been promised Dolphins and I'm staying til I get them and I'm ...

At last, it's stopped raining in Perth, it's Sunday morning and the sun is out again and so is the hangover. So I'm sure you're all dying to know what happened after the cyclone tour. Well we got back to Perth in the rain and Harry and I were staying at the same hostel (and it's luxury as I've got my own room at last) - after feasting on cheese sandwiches and onions for 10 days we decided that the only sensible thing to do was go for a good dinner off of ch...