Melbourne

Well after leaving our much loved New Zealand we finally made it to Australia.

We thought that getting through immigation and customs was going to be a difficult job (mainly due to Samantha's thorough research back in the UK watching many episodes of Airport down under), thankfully despite declaring everything under the sun on our customs forms it was easy and when we tried to show the customs officer our washing powder he just laughed us through.

By the time we made it out of the airport it was dark which meant we got to see very little of Melbourne on the way in. However we were staying right in the centre so there was plenty to see the next day.

On our first full day in Melbourne we started out with a short walk around to explore which turned into a three hour marathon and took us right through all the huge skyscraping office building until we found all the shops, which we were by then too tired to look around and walked back to our hostel through one of Melbournes many parks.

We later attempted to find information on the best way to travel up the east coast which unlike finding information in New Zealand was like trying to get blood out of a stone (although I'm sure that would have been easier). Who would have known that one of the most heavily travelled backpacker routes could be so hard to navigate.

We found it easier to find things to do in Melbourne however as we have visit the Aquarium and plan to visit the Observatory soon.