Blogs from Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

One week to go....counting down with excitement. This is a practice to make sure I've mastered this blog thing before we leave. Not having a big grasp on technology I feel very brave attempting this...but we'll see how we go.... read more

Day 14 Check out early and had breakfast before heading to the airport. Lots of waiting around as we were super early. Short flight to Melbourne then start to follow the instructions Nicola has given us to get to where she lives in Brighton. Shuttle bus, train then NIcola picks us up from the train station. We sit down for a lovely stew dinner with Nicola, Luke and his friend Max from Perth, then we head to watch Luke's band "How Now" play at a nearby bar. great night, the band are great playing lots of variety of music. We meet friends of theirs who were all lovely and friendly. Even got a shout out from the band! Felt very popular. Afterwards we head home for more drinks where we party with the band! Day 15 ... read more

Good Morning Well I'm actually going to start with a funny story from before i wrote my last blog that I didn't find out about until afterwards. The morning I last updated the people in my room had overslept. Turned out they were not the only people. At 6am Rachels flight landed, but whose alarm had run out of battery, thats right Toms. Apparently an hour or so later Tom woke up and went downstairs to try get in touch with her to be greeted by a not very happy, but very jetlagged Rachel who had just arrived at there hostel after 24 hours on the plane. Anyway that day me and Flexi were very good tourists and did a lot of sightseeing in a sort of long walking tour. We started by walking up to ... read more