Day 24 - 10th Mar 2009

I guess the day started at about midnight when the greyhound coach arrived at Canberra. Here we had a quick stop to change drivers and drop up off and pick up passengers. This gave me chance to strech my legs as I was already feeling cramped! Only another 8 hours to go! As everyone started getting on board it become apparent that there was 1 too many people for the number of seats. It turned out that the driver had sold a guy a ticket from Sydney to Melbourne thinking there was a spare seat but there wasn't. It ended up that this poor chap had to spend the rest of the journey sat on the step near the driver! Rather him than me...

Next we stopped at 3am for a meal break. It's surprising how many people wanted food at 3am and I'm equally surprised that given the chance to get food I turned it down. Adam just carried on sleeping.

Eventually we made it to Melbourne slightly earlier than scheduled. We then got a tram out of the city to our hostel. This wasn't great as it was rush hour and we had huge bags to contend with. Anyway we managed and got to the hostel which was further out of the city than I had hoped. Anyway it seemed nice but we had to wait to get our room. This gave us chance to have a rest and try to make plans for the next few days. We decided to either do a couple of day trips from Melbourne or hire car and drive ourselves to Adelaide.

After getting our room and doing some washing and resting we headed off into town. We got some lunch from a food court and then went to the YHA travel centre. The lady was really helpful but the car plan was ended up quite expensive so after some umming and erring we decided to book two 3 day trips. This also turned out to be quite expensive! Oh well we're only here once... I'm just hoping neither of the trips are like the Fraser Island trip I did last I was in Oz. I'm sure the people will be much more sensible then the ones on that trip... Anyway we get to see loads of great things so should be awesome.

We then walked around the city a bit and went to see the river. The city seems pretty busy most of the time, much busier than Sydney. Decided to go a cinema so went the Crown complex which turned out to be trying to compete with Vegas. It had nice shops and restaurants and then a huge casino but kinda Vegas like, just there next to a restaurant. Eventually we found the cinema through the maze of shops and casino. Decided to see 'He's just not that into you' as it shouldn't require too much brain power. I had a slight disagreement with an usher as they had blocked off loads of the cinema because of some film premier or something, this included blocking off all the toilets except one disabled for the use of our screen. 1 toilet for the whole screen, very unreasonable, I'm a paying customer too! Anyway really enjoyed the film, light hearted and funny. Caught a tram back to the hostel and slept like logs.