Blogs from Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 591

Sitting on Brighton beach with a caramel & chock chip ice cream just meters away from the sea. The beach has a few less pebbles that the one back home, but lovely just the same. Think the tide is coming in. Borrowed one of the hostel's free-to-hire bikes, well, I say free, I had to leave my credit card there which probably means it's been cloned and some toe-rag is buying a Gucci track suit as I write. Still, it's been nice to escape St Kilda and come along the coast now that the rain has finally past and the southerly antartic winds have been swapped for a much more plesent breeze from the Northern deserts. Only another 5 days before I head up North - yes, I finally talked to the travel agent and booked ... read more

Hoi allemaal, Nou, iedereen heeft het nieuws waarschijnlijk al lang gelezen, dus daar hoef ik verder niet over uit te wijden. Het was echt een verschrikkelijke beslissing die we moesten nemen, maar we zijn er allebei van overtuigd dat het de beste was. Hij was zo enorm zielig, woensdag eigenlijk al, maar donderdag wa shet nog extremer. Hij kon zijn koppie niet eens meer overeind houden, en lopen deed hij al helemaal niet meer. Het was ook erg snel voorbij toen de dokter eenmaal de injectie gaf, dat was wel weer een verschrikkelijk gezicht moet ik zeggen hoor... hij lag lekker bij Jacq in d’r armen, en lag mij aan te kijken... hartverscheurend hoor. We hebben niet echt geluk met katjes zeg... allebei onze katten niet ouder dan 6 jaar geworden vanwege aangeboren afwijkingen... wat een ... read more

I was very excited to get up for 11am to be taken to Philip Island on my last full day in Australia. Lee, our tour guide was lovely and very chatty. It took him over an hour to collect him then we were on our way. On the way we stopped at Mura Wildlife Park, a center for injured, stray etc animals. We went straight to the wombats, fat brown badgers but very cute! We patted Molly when all she wanted to do was sleep! Me and Skinny had our photo taken with a koala but as Victoria have the biggest in Australia it is illegal to touch them. We had already had our photo taken with one in Australia zoo. We saw a rat being fed to a Tazmanian Devil and fed Wallabies, now i ... read more

3 Snorers and a smelly boy. And that doesnt include me. I guess I've drawn short straw on the dorm buddies this time. For Easter sunday I was up and out obscenely early, and made my way up to the Queen Victoria Market in the hope that it would be open - and it was. There was a load of stalls selling random clothing like any market, but of more interest was the large number of meditteranean (mainly Greek) deli stalls. Apparantly Melbourne has the highest Greek population outside of Greece, and has the 3rd highest Greek population of any city (including those in Greece!). I next went down to Foundation square to check out the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (a great film cinema - mainly historical and artistic works) and the Ian Potter ... read more

Hi!!!! Long time no speak!!!!Hope you all had a great Easter! Not much has happened since I last wrote............suprise suprise a few more drunken nights....... Vix has had toncilitious (!!!!) ........... went to a Thai festival (9th April 06) which was rubbish apart from a lovely Thai Green Curry!!!! Claire and Rena have also left Melbourne (14th April 06) for their trip up the East coast.....weep ! weep! Yesterday we were meant to get up early to go to the Surf Comp at Bells Beach but that didnt happen so we did it today instead.................. Its Easter weekend so a nice long on and lots of time off work!!!!! The beach which we were going to involved a train then taxi ride............... Its supposedly the beach where they filmed the final scene of the film "Point ... read more