Blogs from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 371

hello :D I haven't had an overly exciting few days, more getting ready for my jaunt to alice springs and the famous red centre really!!! i can't believe that my flight is in the morning! it leaves melbourne at 8.35am, so i have to be at the airport by 7.30am, argh!! but nick is giving me a lift, so tis all ok! am amazingly grateful - don't have to get the bus at 6.00am like i had originally planned, phew! needless to say, much preparation (please read as shopping) has been done by myself. i've bought suntan lotion (ever the optimist!), bug spray and even a super cool hat (think cork hat, minus the corks, lol!). i even attempted to buy shorts but failed miserably and ended up buying short trousers - those who know me ... read more

...oh my!! update! (another long entry, i think this may be a trend) ooooh, ok, first thing's first, i've booked my flight to alice springs! i leave melbourne next wednesday morning at 8.35, and should get to alice at about 11am. gonna stay there for a few days, get my bearings, have a look around, then i'm going to (hopefully) be going on a camping safari to uluru (ayers rock) for a few days!! i just need to book the camping trip, then i'm all sorted!! very very excited about it all! will keep you updated... trying to remember what i've been upto since i last wrote in here! ok, sunday: we went on a little mini beach tour which was really good, even though it really isn't beach weather!!! the views more than made up ... read more

G'day!! (hehe, totally predictable, but who cares!!!!) so i thought that i should probably update because i've been here since tuesday now and have done loads and loads! so *WARNING* this could be a super long big fat entry!!! (that and i tend to waffle...) boring stuff - flight was ok, really long though, totally didn't realise that a day is a loooooong time. especially sat down. on a plane. its so so cold here at the moment!! like, think england. in winter time. and because its winter here, its dark by 6, its strange!!! have been borrowing coats and scarves left right and centre, need to go shopping methinks... (any excuse!!) apparently wednesday was the coldest day that they've had in melbourne in 35 years!! they even had snow in some of the surrounding towns, ... read more

As soon as we had checked into our hostel, we went out exploring where we were and as we were only a block away from Queen Victoria Market we had to go shopping. Chrissie got a very good deal on a very nice jacket... In the afternoon we went to the Melbourne Gaol (my second jail in as many weeks) which is quite an eerie place. There is only one wing left and they have filled the cells with loads of information about the former tenants and very creepily with the death masks of the men and women who were hung there, including Ned Kelly. Alledgedly it is haunted, and the night tours and very scarey, but thankfully I was there in day light... We wandered down into town and watched the sunset over the city ... read more

Somebody stole 2 hours because we woke at 9.30 realised we could have a lie in then woke at 11.30 when we had to be the other side of town at 11.45 for the Phillip Island tour! Power walked (very Harold Bishop esque) to Flinders St Station for 12.05, having missed the bus but getting there just as the neighbours bus pulled in. It was the lady who had given us the tour the day before and she phoned the office to get the bus to wait for us there while we caught a taxi over there. We're so lucky :) Finally got on the tour bus and met a couple from St Andrew's Uni who are going to Cambridge next year (they recognised Pete and Dave's splashtops) - her to do a PGCE (keep an ... read more