Trip Plans

Thought it was about time I got this updated again! The time just seems to fly past. Not had a very exciting week just been living quietly! Job hunting isn't going great, just doesn't seem to be many going up.

Went to the Queen Victoria market on Friday, its great for fresh fruit and meat and stuff, quite cheap - especially towards the end of the week. Went to the Art Gallery at Federation Square on Sunday, it was quite good. Planning to go to the Parliament one day this week see if I can get in for Question Time. It is the Victorian Parliament so will be a bit like a council chambers discussion! Been looking into Canberra and I'm thinking I might take a few days to go up there in a couple of weeks as there seems to be lots there I would be interested in.

At the weekend we tried to work out dates for the rest of Australia and our flights to New Zealand/Fiji/Los Angeles, as these need to be changed shortly. Easier said than done, as there is a lot to think about! Distances here are so huge, it takes 48 hours constant travelling on the train to get from top to bottom! At the moment we're thinking about:

• Sat 2nd June Leave for Tasmania (Overnight boat from Melbourne)
• Thur 7th June Get back to Melbourne and hire a car to see the Great Ocean Road
• Sat 9th June Return hire car and get the (overnight) bus to Adelaide
• Wed 13th June Get the Ghan (Train-24 hours) to Alice Springs - to see Ayers Rock
• Mon 18th June Get the Ghan (another 24 hours!) from Alice Springs to Darwin
• Sun 24th June Fly to Cairns on the East Coast and get a bus pass from Cairns to Sydney so we can take as long down the east coast as we need to.
• Sun 15th July Fly to Auckland, probably hire a car. Looking at a spaceship!
• Sun 12th Aug Fly to Fiji
• Fri 17th Aug Fly to LA

These are very provisional at the mo! Means I'll miss Perth but it is so far away and having looked into it seems quite like Sydney/Melbourne.

Anyway that's almost my time up at the Library so I better go!