Blogs from Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times and think to yourself, "there's no place like home" - the good witch Melbourne has been a funny one. Settling here with Saoirse was easy, it was the right thing for me to do. I think it may have been a little harder for her to adjust to me crowding her independent and self sufficient self but it worked well and we are both in a very strong place now. I never found employment but easily kept myself busy running and writing and there were no end of delightful events. Going to see “Wicked” at the theatre was brilliant (Still nothing beats Les Mis!) and a night at “Draculas” was so much fun. A day trip up Eureka tower to view the rest of the ... read more

Happy Easter! How odd being away from home this year. I have had a nice, not so relaxing weekend off of work anyways. On Thursday night one of my flatmates had a party so we had about 30 people here until all hours of the night, not so much fun… I was going to go up to Tathra for the long weekend, but with the party going on Thursday I wanted to be here to make sure people weren’t going into my room etc. You know… So then by the time I would have gotten up there on Friday there was not much point. So I got to stay down in Melbourne. All of my flatmates were out of town except for Alan- who had FIVE friends stay here for the weekend. So having 5 boys ... read more

Well my trip started off with a little glitch... I was supposed to be at Andrew's house two hours ago and I was still in bed! Thanks to having my last day of work the night before, then dinner and drinks with work friends after, and then packing at night I seemingly overslept my alarm! Well it worked out as the Brett's were running behind as well. A few hours later Andrew, his parents, and I were all packed IN to their SUV. And I mean packed in. But 7.5 hours of driving later (well mostly sleeping for me!) we arrived in Tathra, lower east coast of NSW. We were spending the next 6 days here, along with his 3 sisters who came up the next day. The week was full of wlks on the beach, ... read more

Up earlyish start today as going to Brunswick Street with Sarah. We had a walk around all the many boutiques, this is what i like about Melbourne, all the quirky shops and things! We stopped in one of the many cafes before leaving Sarah at lunchtime and walking into town. We walked down Brunswick Street, Gisborne Street, MacArthur Street ( where the museum is ) onto Collin's Street in the CBD ( Central Buisness Centre ). We met Lee as Chris had left his jumper in his car and it was quite breezy today, a little cold! We then walked down Exhibition Street, along Flinders Lane and took a turn down Hosier Lane, this is where the famous graffiti's are, they are everywhere, all over the walls, street, bins... but amazing art! Then we went on ... read more

Up at 5am to get ready for our train. We caught the Overlander from Perth to Melbourne ( managed to save 40% by having the YHA passes ! - brilliant thing to have! ). We left at 7.40 am and arrived at 6.40pm local time - a long day! During the trip a person explains points of interest as we go along - quite interesting, as well as the history of the tracks and trains. We arrived at Southern Cross Station then had to find our way to Annie and Lee's (the daughter of Wilf and Sheila's next door neighbour, who we met on Christmas morning ). We bought the tickets, but couldn't find which platform to go to. Chris asked the ticket person who said " there is no point looking at the boards, they ... read more