An average Sunday afternoon...

As it happens, we're trying to make the most of our time Australia.
That means feeding the kangaroos, being afraid of spiders and all... but sometimes I just forget I am in the land down under!
Not only we live in a part of Melbourne crowded with Irish people (so much we call it Co. St Kilda!) but we have also found an Irish bar called "The Craíc".
They serve Guinness, they have live Irish music... and we ended up having a Sunday session, playing spoons and dancing to some Irish songs: we know all the lyrics now... and none of us is Irish!

Just go with the roast

Living in Melbourne with 2 English girls has shaped my idea of food. Not only do I eat pretty early (yes, 530pm is considered an acceptable dinner time) but, also, as much as I try to cook Italian, the odd beans on toast and mash potato always comes up!

Sometimes you just have to give in completely, forget all about balsamic vinegar and the home made pasta sauce and just go with the roast...

That is the result of a Monday night roast (yes, it was supposed to be a Sunday dinner but a few beers came our way instead!), lovely gravy and all - thanks girls!

Change of plans (...and planes!)

MS ELENA GIULIA VENTURINI

Itinerary Details:

From To Flight Date Departure Arrival Cabin Baggage

NADI MELBOURNE FJ 931 22NOV11 18:25 23:45 ECONOMY 23 KG

Ticket Details:

Ticket Number: 260242119****
Guess I always knew that I was not coming home in December...
I just bought a ticket back into Australia, coming back here after a month of traveling between NZ and Fiji.

I haven't got many plans, I just want to come back to Oz and see what life takes me from there.
Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Leeds, Edinburgh - I don't know... we'll just wait and see!

Now I have officially no flight home - exciiiiiiiiiiiiiting!

Passenger Details:

The Goon

If you've never been backpacking through Australia, the Goon is hard to understand.

The Goon tower in our house.

It's wine in a box, it's really cheap and it's very popular. It comes in a bag within the box, you "slap" it when it's almost finished... and if you had too much of it, you can even use it as a pillow! Handy, uh??

You can be proud of the fact "you're on the Goon for the week end" and, if you mix it with apple juice, it's not even that bad... but, beware... it gives you a mighty hangover! I've been there!

Not doing much, really...

I haven't been very busy lately, still haven't started work properly so I am just chilling every day. I have found a house so I am pretty busy watching the only fuzzy channel that we have (there seems to be cooking programmes all the time!!), cleaning out the fridge (there were only guys living in here first so I'll let you guess what's hiding in there!!), sitting out in the garden and sunbathing with my housemates when it's nice weather.

Hard life, isn't it?

I once met a girl called Adelaide

Took a couple of days off my very busy life (worked for 4days straight and was sooo tired!) to go check Adelaide out, people said there is not much going on but I had a great time!

The bus ride over there was crazy... 10hours, not too bad... but we went through literally the middle of nowhere! Towns that look like they're still in the '50s, with one café and old people having Sat breakfast in!

Night life is amazing, went out the first night (with people I met 4minutes earlier!) and came back at 3 resisting the temptation of a falafel on the way back - not to mention that I got lost, had to get a taxi after walking 40mins... just to discover I was 500m away from the hostel!

Went around the city a bit (nice Migration Museum!) and then spent the Monday on the beach in palindromic Glenelg, had the biggest ice-cream with marshmellows and loved every single moment of it!!

Great Ocean Road

I know I should be job hunting and all, especially after moaning about it for so long... but I am in Australia (which is the other side of the world, right??) and I guess I am still traveling... so... I went a bit mad and went on a tour to the Great Ocean Road today, amazing.

Some places looked like the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland... but with 10degrees more and a fit surfers as well! Wow!

And, on the way there, we stopped at a rainforest to have a little walk and in an eucaliptus forest... to see some furry friends - koalas! They are really sleepy, slow and a bit hard to spot but... so cute!