Melbourne, Australia March 14th 2010 We arrived in Melbourne early Friday afternoon without a hotel reservation. The only place we could find in downtown only had an opening for that night and we took it. We got checked in and started searching for another hotel for the next couple of nights. The beach area of St. Kilda seemed like an appropriate place for a couple of beach bums and we booked a couple of nights at an apartment buildi ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » St Kilda Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
We are leaving our families and dogs behind to keep the home fires burning and will attempt this Round the World trip in 80 days. Our itinerary is planned to include SE Asia, Australia/New Zealand, India/Nepal, UK, Eastern Europe and Iceland.
We have reservations for our flight to Bangkok on Feb 15, 3 days lodging in Bangkok and flights Kuala Lumpur to Australia & return Mar 10-28. The rest we'll just make up as we go along.
A year ago I did make the RTW trip with my wife. She however was in such a hurry that we needed to finish up in a mere 76 days. She also insisted on having everythi... full info