And back to Melbourne

After Coober Pedy we made our way back to Melbourne. We stopped at a place called Mildura on the way for a few days where we had a little winery tour / steamboat ride which was nice! That was about all we did there, the rest of the time was spent sorting our stuff out and, updating the blog and doing our washing, pretty dull stuff really.

We arrived in Melbourne and checked into our hostel. Now, I'd booked this place last time we were here to make sure we got a double room over the GP weekend, but when we arrived they had us in a twin room and there was nothing they could do cos they were full due to the GP! They were very unhelpful and didn't seem to care even though it was their mistake. So, we decided to stay for one night and then see if we could find somewhere else (which was gonna be difficult given that it's GP weekend and we'd be paying top dollar if we found anywhere!) But we did manage to find somewhere, the place we stayed in last time, Nomads which is a nice place, but we did have to pay top dollar, but anyway room sorted all that was left to do was sell the car! There was a girl interested in buying it who the guy at the Autobarn put us onto and she happened to be staying at the same hostel, but in the end she didn't and I spent the evening before we were due to sell it back to the autobarn trying to sell it to everyone in the hostel, but to no avail! Hey ho, we sold it back to the autobarn place and now we are back to carrying our stuff around and yet again we've accumulated a lot!

We were in Melbourne for just over a week and we pretty much spent that week drinking! The hostel we'd been staying at really is party tastic, people are on it everynight and there's always something or other going on, plus you get free evening meals which are served in the bar so it's really difficult not to spend the evening drinking. We had a couple of nights in nightclubs too, there are plenty of places that do cheap / free drinks for backpackers, it's dangerous!! We also saw the Grand Prix too, really enjoyed that. We went for all 4 days and it was the first time I'd been to one and I really enjoyed it, was an exciting race!

Now, we're actually still in Melbourne but we're flying out to Brisbane this evening to go see Rich's friends, Brett and Kerrie. They're getting married in a couple of weeks so it's going to be a pretty exciting time with them what with Stag / Hen weekends, the wedding and we're even going on the first part of their honeymoon with them to fraser island!