Day 65 – Officially half way through my travels!

To celebrate being half way I basically did nothing all day. I had my breakfast, read some of my book and then decided I should really get out of the house, so I decided to go for a little run/walk. I ran down Highland Avenue (where they live) then the next road, when I discovered a park, so obviously I had to go and test out the swings. It was quite hard because the seat is a bendy bit of plastic instead of the rigid seats you get in the UK so I found it quite awkward to pull on the chains to actually swing, I managed it but my 5 minutes of fun was over. I walked through some alleyways and found a shop, which you can actually see from Stuarts house and looks really far away. I decided to pop in, grab and ice cream and slowly walk back, I was probably only gone about an hour and a bit but it was long enough for me.

I also feel like I should give a round up of things/music/books etc, so here it goes! (More for my benefit than anyone else’s, feel free to ignore)

Songs that remind me of my trip so far:

Clean Bandit ft Jess Glynne – Rather Be

Magic – Rude

Pitbull ft Ke$ha – Timber

Katy Perry – Dark Horse

Aloe Blacc – The Man

Lily Allen – Hard Out Here

Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night

Books I’ve read:

Rainbow Rowell – Eleanor & Park

John Green – Looking for Alaska

Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games, Catching Fire & Mockingjay

Bill Bryson – The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Currently reading)

Markus Zusak – The Book Thief (Currently reading)

Movies I’ve seen:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Andy Murray Documentary

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Hunger Games 1&2

Day 23 – Last day in Melbourne.

I didn’t really have any plans or desires to see anything else in the city. Today was probably the hottest day I’ve had in Melbourne, so I decided to walk down the road and pop into the Queen Victoria Library. The main reason was to use their free wifi to update everything online and organise some flights and other things for later on in my trip.

After I finished I spent some time on the grass outside finishing off the second Hunger Games book before heading back to the hostel to cook up the remainder of my food so I didn’t have to take it to New Zealand.

Day 9 - Chilled day.

I got up pretty late, about 11am? I’ve become quite lazy in my week in Perth but that’s ok. Michael had a driving test around 3pm so we decided just to chill around the house for the day. This meant I spent most of my time reading in the garden by the pool or in the living room. I also looked through a local paper where I found something I recognised...

a small article about the city of Portsmouth which is where I am from! Pretty crazy and quite fitting as I got some news from back home that day.