Blogs from CBD, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 10

Tuesday 4th January Well hopefully I can keep this installment of the blog short and sweet after the rather long Sydney episode! We have travelled for two days from Sydney to Melbourne. We had a over night stop in Canberra where we did nothing apart from being overcharged by a Pakistani Taxi driver who drove us the long way around to our hostel. We only knew this when we got our taxi back in the morning which took half the time and four streets less. So we arrive Melbourne after an all day monster bus journey and then walked about a mile to our hostel which wasn't ideal at 11pm but we fired on. Our accommodation The Vic Halls is in the CBD of Melbourne city. We feared the worse as we approached the entrance to ... read more

Melbourne is a little bit of an enigma to me – in a pleasant way of course! I say that because walking down the streets here feels like being in Chicago downtown with a little bit of Europe thrown in. There are so many things that strike me – for a big city it is amazingly clean and organised; people are so friendly, helpful and it’s like a cosmopolitan of the East. The one thing that really raised our eyebrow is that due to the strength of the Aussie Dollar, things are so expensive. Looking at prices, you can’t help but convert them into British pounds and think “damn that’s steep for a cup of coffee!” Nonetheless, I feel as though I get more for my money; a mushroom pizza we had at a small pizza ... read more

Hi all, So I had my second day of work yesterday! Its good fun, everyone is so nice and the day goes so quick cause there is so much to do. I spent the day tying off balloons, my hands are killing me defo going to need a manicure ha! Love how manicures are so cheap over here, along with massages. And everyone gets them, at home it is definitely a treat for you to get your nails done, here its the norm. Weather was beautiful yesterday, sun shining everyone was in a great mood. It's so much easier working with people when they are in good form. Melbourne is definitely an easy place to work, I'm sure you get hard jobs here, but it just seems so much more laid back there is no mad ... read more

Hello boys and girls The girl half of the okten/green combo is here again to update you on our latest adventures. I'll try not to bore you but this may be a long one as it has been a while, here's what's been happening from our time in Australia; Well we left Singapore and arrived in Sydney in February where Pat and Tash kindly picked us up, put us up and fed us! We stayed with them for four nights in Wollongong, it was great to catch up with them as we had parted ways in Thailand with us going to the islands and them going back to Laos. We had a couple of nights out with their friends who I felt really sorry for as all the four of us talked about non stop was ... read more

Melbourne Getaway - spent a few days in melbourne until the taxi drivers got the better of me. I got abused by one driver who shook his head and suggested I should have walked instead. I asked another driver to take me to fitzroy gardens, and he didnt know where it was. When I mentioned captains cook cottage he had no idea what i was talking about (its about 800m from the CBD). we asked him to use his satnav, but he refused. just hopeless. I began carrying a map with me to point out the the destinations and the possible routes we should take. Southbank was a lovely escape, visited a few gardens, the titanic exhibition and associated imax movie/doco. Went to skydeck88 and out on the 'Edge'. this is a glass cube that protrudes ... read more