In Australia now where we have been for the last month! Started off in Melbourne which was wicked! After spending 3 weeks in New Zealand (which was beautiful, scenic and we had a great time but was full of sheep not people!!) we were definately ready for some city action!
The city itself is really quirky and has some really nice little areas tucked away with nice restaurants and bars so naturally we had to try out a few of them!!
It happened to be Melbourne fashion week to which was great for me, not so great for Andy!! i managed to get him into a few exhibitions one day which were amazing, especially the Zhandra Rhodes (my personal favourite- dont think Andy had one!!!) Also happened to be the weekend of the Future music festival so got to see Chemical Bros, Roger Sanchez, Sven Vath, Eddie and some random aussie Djs at a really cool venue with the city in view and 30 degrees weather!- was an ace day!!
As it was a long weekend there was a big festival down by the river so the whole time we were there there was always something going on- saw some really spectacular fireworks over the river which they did 3 nights in a row!
My personal highlight of melbourne though has to be meeting the legend that is Harold Bishop ( if anyone dosent know who that is then shame on you- and im not gona tell you!) It was such a funny night, in the bar below our hostel, Harold, Ned and Janae all came for a special Neighbours night and came round and met everyone in the bar personally!!! Harold was such a dude and absolutely hammered! Ned was cool and talked to us for ages- he's leaving soon to pursue a singin career in London ha ha ha!!! Janae didnt really speak to us, so we dont like her! The whole night was such good fun and somehow we ended up winning loads of stuff like a big hamper of random english food!!
From Melbourne we went to Adelaide to visit Andys Uncle Tony, Auntie Lynne and Cousin Sean. We had such a nice time staying with them and they made us feel so welcome -THANK YOU LYNNE AND TONY! We did and saw loads while we were there, one of my favourites being the Cleland wildlife park. There we fed loads of kangaroos and funny looking birds and saw loads of other aussie animals :wombats, tasmanian devil, koalas etc. One day we randomly went up to a little German town in the hills called Hahndorf and had a a famous 'Hahnburger"!! probably the biggest burger ive ever seen!! It was great!!
Adelaide itself was a really nice city with a river running through which we went out on a boat on, We also went to see Colonel Lights statue - the guy who designed the city (an English man!) and a really beautiful place called waterfall gully.
We spent most of Easter weekend down in Mount Gambier with Andys cousin Sean, his girlfriend Racheal and their friend Paul - THANKS YOU GUYS TO!! Its about 5 hours south of Adelaide out in the country so all the animals we saw in the wildlife park we actually saw in the wild- it was ace! When we were driving around at night there would be kangaroos jumping out in the road right in front of us! we saw wild emu which was strange and a wombat which was cool!
The others all have kayaks and go out fishing on the river on them so Andy and I decided it would be a good idea to buy a blow up boat!! So one afternoon we all went out fishing on the river (bearing in mind i have never fished in my life!!) but it was really good fun! Until it went dark! Trying to row back to the jetty in the dark in a big blow up boat with two tiny oars and trying really hard not to get to close to the side in fear of popping our vessel was a little bit stressful but we made it eventually!!! we did have one close call with a big motor boat that didnt see us and nearly ran us over, quite funny looking back on it now!!
Everyone caught a few fish but only one (a Mulloway) was big enough to eat that Paul caught! there was a fire so the fish was put staright on it and we ate it outside just sitting by the river- it was ace- couldnt get much fresher fish!! The next day Andy caught a bream that was big enough to eat so that night we had that and some huge Crayfish that Paul had caught previously! Such a good feeling eating fish that has just been caught!!
There was loads to see around Mount Gambier to, we went to the lakes which were stunning especially the Blue Lake which was blue surprisingly! we jumped in one of the small ones which was fun, climbed up a volcano which was v tiring and went in some caves which was pretty scary (for me- Andy loved it!)
When we got back from Mount Gambier we had a few days in Adelaide before we had to say farewell to everyone and head of to Sydney......
