great deal of investment and is pretty much like any other waterside regeneration project. Having said that, it was really pleasant and made for a nice way spend a couple of hours. We stopped for a snack and beer and basically just sat and watched the world go by, what else are Sunday afternoons for? After our refuelling we thought we’d get the free circular tram back in the vague direction of the hostel. The trams are really cool. They are really old wooden ones and have loads of character, so it was rather pleasant sat there trundling around the city.

We’d had a lovely chilled day and Rob was up for cooking, so we went back to the hostel. We met a really nice Irish girl who’d just arrived in Melbourne from Sydney and was finding the rest of the hostel crowd a little unfriendly. It has to be said I didn’t like any of the hostels we stayed at in Australia. I didn’t think they were

friendly places at all. Too many people far too in love with themselves and they were fairly grotty for the money. Its not like we stayed in the cheapest ones either. We started off by swooping unfriendly hostel stories with her and ended up having a really good laugh, so it was a good end to a top day.

Hostel aside we’d had a great time in Melbourne. Melbourne is a really great city, my favourite out of all of the ones we visited. It wasn’t extortionately expensive like Sydney and the people seemed a lot more down to earth. But it was time to move on again and this time we were moving onto The Red Centre, and visiting the dead centre of the country and Uluru otherwise known as Ayers Rock!

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