The Journey Home The journey home Is never too long Your heart arrives before the plane The journey home Is never too long Some yesterdays always remain I'm going back to where my heart was light When my pillow was a ship I sailed through the night The journey home Is never too long When open arms are waiting there The journey home Is never too long There's room to love and room to spare I want to feel the way that I did then I'll think my wishes through before I wish again Not every road you come across Is [View Full Entry]

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And so dear readers this is the final entry as to my time in Australia. This truly has been the holiday of a lifetime and its hard to pick out the highlights of the trip as everything has just simply been superb. You find me sitting in the Air New Zealand lounge with a glass of chardonnay and a tucking into a rather nice lamb curry and trying to think how I can conclude my writings. I hope you have enjoyed reading my adventures as much as I have enjoyed writing them, I know that I have only really scratched the [View Full Entry]

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And so I face the final curtain.... it was time to head back to Sydney for my final night in this fantastic country. I was sad to be leaving Melbourne. It really had so much to offer and like the other cities and areas I have visited I know I have only just scratched the surface. The flight back was fast and uneventful, I got my favourite seat again (4B) and enjoyed the legroom of being at the front of the section (absolute result for those with long legs). The flight was quiet so the crew got chatting to me, and [View Full Entry]

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Altogether now... Neighbours, Everybody likes good neighbours.... Well folks my final full day in Melbourne and after a unplanned lie in I woke to.... rain. Well at least it gets me back into the autumnal British weather I thought. However, after breakfasting, the sun had broken through and I was once again greeted with 21c. Today I was taking in some self guided walking tours around the historic and cultural areas of Melbourne as well as hitting some of the great museums that Melbourne has to offer. The walk tour started me in Flagstaff Gardens and was called Radical Melbourne - [View Full Entry]

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Woke to grey skies - oh no! Can this be - a grey day in Melbourne. Well I need not have worried as after an hour the greyness had turned to brilliant blue skies and it was warming up nicely. As I left the apartment to wend my way down St Kilda Road and to St Kilda Beach I was greeted by thousands of runners taking part in the Melbourne Marathon - it was quite a spectacle watching the runners as I walked down to the beach - all shapes and sizes, from the most serious to the most leisurely but [View Full Entry]

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After a well deserved lie in, it was time to head to the heart of Melbourne and discover what hidden secrets it had to offer. The very efficient tram system quickly transported me to Flinders Street and Federation Square. Fed Square is a modern area of concrete and glass (a modern day version of Trafalgar Square) with the contrast opposite of Victorian grandeur of Flinders Street Station the main train and transit terminal for Melbourne. Immediately Melbourne had more of a Euro-cosmopolitan feel to it - it was a centre that had life to it no matter what time it was. [View Full Entry]

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And so the flight from Brisbane to Melbourne and the final leg of my Aus-O-Rama. Another good flight down to Melbourne (turbulence permitting) and again the 2 and a half hours flew by. A great vista of the city as we flew in and being in seat 4b meant me being off the plane in now time at all, a quick wait for the bags and then off to find a transit to St. Kilda. Unfortunately for me a very unhelpful Aussie (the first I encountered) greeted me at the transit desk (think male equivalent to Vicky Pollard and Computer Says [View Full Entry]

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After a good night's sleep I woke up scratching away, somewhere between PD and Brissie a mosquito had decided to have a feast on me - interesting fact - did you know it was only the female mosquito that snacked on human blood? It was still quite early and I had the day to myself as all were working or away. I had decided to head into Brissie and do the walking tour from the Lonely Planet Guide. It had also recommend a good place for brekkie as well - which today was a light breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, [View Full Entry]

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After a good mooch around Brissie, I took the ferry cat to Brett's Wharf to meet up with some of Justine's friends who were acting as host for the afternoon. They decided to take me to Mount Coot Tha to get an appreciation of how big the city is. The Mount is the highest point in Brisbane so you get to appreciate the urban sprawl and my how it sprawls. Its very reminiscent to going to the Guggenheim in LA and taking in the views from there. What I didn't realise was that Brisbane had been the largest city in the [View Full Entry]

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G'day bloggites and thank you for your comments thus far - glad that you are enjoying my travel commentary thus far and apologies for the erraticity of them over the past few days... the pom has been having problems with his connections - must have been the humidity. Today has been an uneventful day mainly spent travelling to Brisbane aka Brissie, Brissol, or BrisVegas. The journey to the airport was much better then heading up as a beautiful spring's day allowed us uninterrupted views of the coastline past Palm Cove and onto Cairns International Airport. At the moment this airport is [View Full Entry]

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