Category — Australia

Hello all,

We are now in Australia!

We were quite sad to leave NZ because we both had such a great time there – I have actually fallen head over heels in love with the place!

We spent our last few days in Christchurch in a camper site in the back garden of a hostel! Sounds weird but the location couldn’t be beaten… just a short stroll down to the city centre and the riverside. Christchurch is a really pretty city, so we spent a couple of days just walking around it. It has a Wagamama’s – yum yum! The weather wasn’t all that great. Bit sunny sometimes, bit drizzly sometimes. We drove around the Banks peninsula for a day, but it was a grey, cloudy day so we missed out on the crater rim view. However, we did have a nice lunch by the shore, sipping on hot choc out on the deck.

Bye bye NZ….

Highlights were:
Abel Tasman – just beautiful. Wish we could have stayed a month.
Queenstown – bungy and skydive. Celebrating our bravery afterwards.
Imagining the lifestyle – after visiting Matt’s Aunt, a 25 year NZ’er.
ALL OF IT – just jaw droping scenery at every turn.

Lowlights were:
A few grey and rainy days on the South Island, meaning we didn’t get to see some beautiful places properly, if at all, and at their best.
My trainers going astray and breaking my second pair of flip flops!
LEAVING – can Australia live up to it?!

We’ll see…. the first few days have been fun. We have been staying in a great hostel in St Kilda, Melbourne. It’s a very cool district with a great beach and nightlife, and a short tram ride from the city centre. Melbourne is a gorgeous city – there are really grand buildings, both old and new, everywhere. The food and shopping are fantastic. I can see why you spent so long here Steph!

On Monday we went to a Neighbours night and met Karl Kennedy (legend), Steve and Miranda (not legends but nice enough). A wicked night; highly recommended. Karl sings with his band for a couple of hours at the end, and they are actually pretty good – all Killers and Kaiser Chiefs type stuff – so we got down with our bad selves after too much gin and beer. 

The next day we paid a visit to Ramsay Street – aka Pin Oak Court. Had to be done, and I think it was worth the 1.5hrs each way on the tram! Very surreal. It’s tiny and we felt like weirdos hanging around as it’s a normal residential street.

We have now picked up our campervan – decided we enjoyed the freedom of it and don’t want to spend all our time either sat on or waiting for a bus. Time will tell if it was a good decision.

Yesterday we drove the Great Ocean Road. There are a few pics in the gallery.

Laters x