Aymi’s Adventures

Arriving into Melbourne at 6am in the morning after no sleep on the overnight bus wearing thongs (flip flops) was not a good idea.  Luckily walking around with my increasingly heavy backpack kept me slightly warmer whilst I found the right tram to St Kilda and Base backpackers. The guy kindly let me check in early so I managed to get a couple of hours sleep before heading out to explore. Spent the afternoon wandering round St Kilda which was a beautiful place full of little boutique style shops and hundreds of bakeries and delicatessens to tempy even the strongest willed people.

Met up with Phil (who I met in the Galapagos Islands) in the city that night and he showed me round the area, although we did struggle when walking against the gale force winds!!

Spent the next day on the free tourist bus around Melbourne stoping for a closer look at the cricket ground (MCG), lunch at chinatown, afternoon tea at Victoria markets and various other places of interest.

Headed over to Phil & Leanne’s house in Healsville later on and had dinner with them, it was really good to catch up, finally got to see my surfing pictures and bungy DVD (which are now on their way home) and looked through thousands of galapagos pictures. It was a really nice evening.

The next day (after a long lie in and the clocks moving forward) I met up with Pip and Brooke (friends of Renee & Jane who I met in Costa Rica & still miss greatly) for a hot chocolate and a couple of beers, it was a great afternoon.

That night I ended up going out for dinner with Ben (from Sydney, who was away in Melbourne with work – weird or what) and then just chilled out the next morning before catching my flight at 1.15 back to Sydney.

Considering I wasnt looking forward to going back to Sydney I had a fab two nights there with Chris (cool Irish dude I travelled the East Coast with on the Oz Bus). Didnt really do much other than chat for hours over lots of beers and Jager bommers – the drink of Australia, then sleep for most of the day, have a little wander for lunch and then do it all again!!

I was sad to have to say goodbye to him again before heading back to Sydney Airport for the 3rd time for my flight to Bangkok, however I was looking forward to getting out of Australia and back to somewhere I love – Thailand.