http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Victoria , Melbourne , Ramsay Street en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:05:01 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:05:01 UTC So the day finally came and I am now returned from the tour of a lifetime yep Neighbours tour my friends and it was awesome Was picked up at my hostel at 1pm this afternoon and have spent the afternoon with like minded Neighbours geeks. I won as the biggest loser of all by knowing the Scott and Charlene Wedding music in the first 2 seconds of it playing. Yep was labelled as the tour loser from http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-289160.html Greetings FriendsI am in my kitchen preparing my first Travel Blog. I am intrigued by this technology and hope that it will be easy to use as I travel. If not I'll go back to my infrequent emails. Vince bought me a whizbang digital camera from his recent trip to the USA so hopefully I'll be able to add photos to this journey that I am taking.I have really enjoyed Kate and Ryan's travel blog but http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-284672.html It was a mere eight days ago that I departed Middle Earth for the Land of Oz. I arrived in Sydney hoping to see surfers sheilas and the entire cast of Home and Away but I think the rain scared them all away. We're not just talking a shower here. We're talking a tropical monsoon which seems to be typical of this summer. It is Sydney's worst summer for 20 years in fact. Being British I wasn't abo http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-253253.html Hi everyone can you believe we're the other side of the world Took a while to sink in. We're in Melbourne a really neat compact city very easy to get around with lots of free transport wicked. We've been on a free bus with commentary and a free tram again with commentry and going different routes think we should do that in LondonOur first backpackers is a pile of croc as they say. A http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-250937.html G'day mateWe got the bus from just outside the camp into thecity centre. It took almost an hour but it was a saturday and there are so many sets of traffic lights along the way your'e stopping every 2 minutes. Our first impressions of just the outskirts of the city was not that great it looked just like Plymouth It was no where near as clean or as nice as Adelaide. As we got closer into the ci http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-250905.html Interesting day today 13 hours on a bus minimal air conditioning no tv radio playing Rhianna. Surprisingly good fun though.Yesterday I arrived in Melbourne early pratically fell off the bus so tired had my now traditional 3 hour power nap before facing the outside world. Had no clue what to look at in Melbourne so wandered round clutching my guide looking lost. Ended up in jail. The old Me http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-250643.html Hello folks Bet you're all glad to hear from us I can just imagine you all biting your nails losing sleep constantly wondering whether we made it to Adelaide or were stranded in the desert living with the Nullarbor Nymph and the kangeroos Google itP Well it's good news we did make it to Adelaide and left Western Australia for the first time in a lot of months We had a few adventures http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-237900.html Neighbours everybody needs good neighbours...........hehehe. We met some more irish girls in our hostel and decided to do the neighbours day tour with them and the quiz night a few nights later. We visited as you can see erinsbourgh high school and ramsay street. We could not believe that it is a real street which has real residents but instead is called Pin Oak Court. They have a security gu http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-236641.html Christmas morning was the first morning Jake and Mia the 2 yearold twins had actually made their own way out of their bedroom alone without the guidance of either Jason or Lisa. The fun started at around 730 a.m. with the kids opening their presents. It would be a day of toys everywhere and non stop eating. We won't go in to the minor details of the day as everybody's Christmas is special to t http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-232063.html Neighbours everybody needs good neighbours with a little love and understanding. A major reason my only to visit Melbourne was to go on the neighbourrsquos tour. That is exactly what Mono and me did. Upon waiting for the tour to start we first had to meet one of the cast of new or old. We were speculating who would it be Harold Susan Izzy in my dreams or even Mr Neighbours himself Karl Ke http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-228646.html Easy folks just thought id let you know that i passed my course and am now looking at figuring out where the hell im going next. I will definitely be going to hong kong but its unlikely ill work there because im looking at entry level jobs and HK is very expensive..i really dont feel like having to rent a windowless room and living off crisp sandiwiches...so hopefully by the next time i write on http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-228138.html Monday 10th December 2007Well it's probably not the most original title for a travelblog but you have to do it...Finally. The day I've been waiting for the reason for the trip to Melbourne... It's cheesy but it should be fun This afternoon is to be the Neighbours Tour followed by the Neighbours night. I've already decided no internet today so have a bit of a sleep in my shareladies don't http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-226732.html Hi just a quick one to let you know that im still plodding on with this course. Its been a bit sketchy this week i blame this infernal heat but i seem to have righted things now and am back on track in my bid to teach english swear words to japanese businessmen you can never know too many ways to say 'leave me alone and stop bothering me'..and we brits have lots of ways to say thatOther than http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-225651.html Hi. I started my teaching course last monday and am fast realising that the students know way more about english grammar than i do. Still its going well been teaching most days as well as having theory and methodology classes.Its like work really im up at 7 and have to commute for 40 minutes into the city..and then i have to plan stuff for the next day when i get home..fortunately its only for http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-222283.html Hi im currently working on the pre course assignment that i need to complete before monday so i thought id distract myself even more already been to the shop watched TV visited facebook.. and give people an update on my trip. Well its not really a trip anymore as im not going anywhere right now not until my course finishes in mid december...after which my folks are coming out to my brother http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-219772.html So what Melbourne Travel Blog would be complete without a trip to Ramsay StreetI'd had a bit of a heavy night boozing session with work on Friday night sorry Claire and staggered in at about 3am. I have no idea where we ended up but I have since been told I ordered dinner and drinks in a Greek restaurant and lasted 2 mins before going for a taxi home. I'm sure it was a good night.So Saturd http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-211450.html It has been a while since the last blog and we have been really busy settling down in Melbourne. We are now both working full time and hopefully the bank account will start to look better soon Trying to remember everything that we have done is going to be a challenge but hey here goeshelliphellipAs the weather has picked up we decided to make the walk from our flat into the city centre. So http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-195884.html That's when good Neighbours become good friends.... Well for those of you prehistoric people who don't have bebodid not receive an amazing picture text I fulfilled one of my life long ambitions on Monday night...I went to a Neighbours party and met the stars It was amazing I have watched Neighbours since the age of 3 and everyone knows how much I love the doc Oh yes Karl aka 'The Fletch' http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-156601.html It was a wet morning but that didn't dampen my spirits as I was about to embark on my tour of Ramsey Street and Erinsborough The tour was admittedly a little expensive for what it was but then you were able to relive some classic Neighbours moments get all the gossip on what's coming up on the show I would share with you but I'm sure I'd get a fair number of moans from you Neighbours fans out http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-153778.html Hi all it's us again we promise this wont be long but thought we should update you on our whole 2 days in Melbourne After a change of plan we ended up staying in the Radisson Hotel Thanks Dad Brian which was very nice... Yeah we had our own TV again. We are now hooked on the Australian Big Brother it's such a shame we have to leave for Fiji tonight how depressing hee hee The main t http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-151707.html Today we went on the neighbours tour We were so excited as we met our tour bus. Our first stop was Erinsborough high and on the way we watched an old episode on the bus TV. It was Scott and Charlene's wedding. It was funny to see such a golden oldy and watching all the characters who have gone on to other things now especially seeing a young Kylie Minogue Who I'm sure has definitely had some w http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-151051.html Should point out I'm not technically in Ramsay St but this is the dream...Faye and I woke up at 415 this morning to crawl out of bed we had been sleeping on couches for the two previous nights so it was nice to be in a bed and gather our bags before taking a bus and two trains to reach the airport. All went smoothly though and we arrived safely at Melbourne airport where Geoff of Geoff http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-137214.html We're back in Melbourne for a couple of nights. Just enough time to do two things. First to go back to Fitzroy Melbourne's answer to Soho full of cafs and independent shops. We find it impossible not to pay a visit to a fantastic little place on Brunswick Street the Chocolatera San Churro which does plates of delicious fresh Spanish churros served hot with a big bowl of melted chocolate. Hea http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Ramsay-Street/blog-136021.html