Our plan in Melbourne was to have a bit of a look around the city and liase with Pauls cousin, whos wedding have formed the basis of the excuse for this trip in the first place, and then hire a car and explore the surrounding countryside and the Great Ocean Road before heading back into Melbourne for the wedding it's self. Cindy, who was one of the Ozzie Sheilas Paul & I met in the Peruvian Jungle a few years previously lives near Melbourne so we wanted to go and catch up with her as well.

Melbourne seemed rather chilly after the heat and humidity of Kuala Lumpar. Our first taste of Australia was a man with a loudhailer trying desperately to flog cut price booze and cigarettes to everyone waiting in the gigantic immigration queue which I took to be a good omen.