Blogs from St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 56

Hoi allemaal, zijn we weer.... ditkeer met een uitgebreider verhaal, aangezien we (m.n. ik, Robin) wat relaxter zijn op het moment. Het huisje waar we het gisteren over hadden hebben we besloten te nemen na wederom een drukke dag!! Wat is er allemaal gebeurd? Vanmorgen dus om half 8 een autootje gehuurd bij de AVIS,en direct naar een makelaar gescheurd. Huisje bekeken, was op zich leuk, alleen beetje ver overal vandaan. Dus maar niet gedaan. Vervolgens weer een andere makelaar via wiewe een aantal huisjes hadden bekeken, allemaal nix... de wanhoop sloeg weer toe!! Vervolgens om 12 uur een openbare bezichtiging van een woning, enwonder boven wonder was dit een tof apartement: 2 slaapkamers, aparte studeerkamer, leuke moderne hoekkeuken, redelijk nieuwe badkamer, en (belangrijk!!) centraal gelegen t.o.v. strand/ uitgaansgebied en park. Dus direct een formulier ingevuld ... read more

Greetings from Melbourne, well really from Kings Cross in Sydney as it's a week later but you ken what I mean. We arrived in Melbourne to drop auld Bertha off at the car hire place and after driving around the airport for ages we finally found the shop. I'll not go into details here (as it makes me dry retch even thinking about it) but needless to say emptying the chemical toilet wasn't the best thing we've done on the trip, actually it may have been the worse if it hadn't been for that night with the cockroaches, but that's another story.... Anyway Melbourne, a great place, well I though so, Fiona wasn't as keen. It reminded me of Glasgow (note/question to self: is there any place in the world that doesn't remind you of somewhere ... read more

Starting an around the word trip by train may seem a bit old fashioned, but that’s how I have started mine. Before that point however, I went surfing. I had returned to Australia for the summer arriving on Dec 2nd, which in the land of OZ is the second day of summer. That day was in Sydney and my good friend Paul had, as he often does, organised the next few days for fun and excitement...Bondi beach is a good way to spend your first day back in Australia after 6 months in London and for my second day home an 'All Australian' music festival called Home Bake was even better. But that’s got nothing to do with surfing because I couldn't surf then! Most of the summer was spent living and working in Melbourne and ... read more

i must say that it was a great flight. the almost 15-hour flight went by so fast. we had dinner (chicken & cheesecake) and breakfast (sausage and vegie tart). i read the in-flight magazine and watched the movie about a guy who walked across Australia alone (South to North). it was raining when we touched down @ close to half past nine (that's how aussies say it). getting through customs was a breeze - all i heard from the customs agent was: "here ya'go, enjoy!" while handing me my passport back. it didn't take long for me to find the SkyBus that'll take me to downtown Melbourne. from there, i took the tram to St. Kilda (about 20 mins tram ride towards the beach @ the south end). it's a happening place where my hostel is. ... read more

Well, what can I tell you about Melbourne? I loved it! I went for 6 weeks and ended up staying about 4 months! It was time to get a job, money was running out and in turn so was the fun. Melbourne was going to be the place to build up the funds again. If only it was that easy! I was a bit naïve and thought I would just pick up work in a couple of days, well you can if you want to work on commission only. I did an evening cleaning job for around a week, which was heaps of fun but then landed a telesales job. I didn’t expect to enjoy it or be able to do it, but when you really need the money and put your mind to something the ... read more