A short drive from Melbourne CBD is the tourist hotspot Phillip Island. It’s a small island at just 26km long and 9km wide and is connected to the mainland by a short bridge crossing. Before packing up the car and beginning our Great Ocean Road and Red Centre outback adventure we decided to make the…
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Melbourne living (for two weeks)
First stop in hitting the road from Shepparton was to head back down south to my favourite city of Melbourne for a few weeks. Adam still had two weeks left of work at this point, so I used the chance to be a lady of leisure and enjoy chilling out for two weeks in the city. While…
Valentines weekend in Melbourne – part 3 of 3
Living and working in a rural town since January left us all missing the city life, so for Valentine’s Day and the weekend preceding it, Adam and I went for a weekend of activities back in Melbourne. The train from Shepparton to Melbourne is only 2 1/2 hours, and costs $24.50. A reasonable price for…
Melbourne Food, Drink & Nightlife – part 2 of 3
As a big city, Melbourne has an abundance of options to choose from when it comes to eating out. We made the most of our time there and visited as many bars, restaurants and clubs as we could afford on our backpackers budget. The Fitz, was our first eating out experience, a cafe with an…
Melbourne activities – Part 1 of 3
In total, we ended up spending around 3 weeks in Melbourne, so managed to visit quite a lot of places in that time. For that reason, I’m going to split our time in Melbourne into a couple of posts, starting with activities. Food, drink and nightlife will follow in a second post and Adam and…
A week in Sydney
After our long drive from Cairns, in early December we finally made it down to Sydney to see what the city had to offer. After living on Fitzroy Island for the previous six weeks, we were very excited to experience the busy city life again. We opted to stay at Surfside Bondi Beach, as it…
A backpackers Christmas
Around four weeks ago now, Adam set off on his flight from Heathrow to Cairns, and joined Emma and I to backpack around Australia. Prior to him arriving, we decided to head to big cities for Christmas and New Year, and made a plan to drive our car the long journey from Cairns to Sydney,…
Sights around Cairns
Before Emma and I moved over to Fitzroy Island, we spent around four weeks living in Cairns and working in a little village called Palm Cove. On our days off we tried to make the most of our time in Cairns and making the effort to go and see the sights nearby. The first few…
Cairns
Cairns marked the final stop on our East Coast trip. We drove there from mission beach almost three weeks ago now, having spent most of our money and set on trying to find ourselves a job. We spent the first two nights in Gilligan’s, which has a reputation for being a party hostel. We were…
Brisbane
As both our first and fourth stops on the trip, we ended up spending a total of six nights in Brisbane. On our first four nights we stayed in Brisbane City Backpackers, a hostel on Upper Roma Street which is around a 20 minute walk to the centre. The hostel had its own bar with…