Our first few days in chilly Melbourne

After some tearful and many nearly tearful goodbyes Alex and I set off on sunday evening from Heathrow for Melbourne to begin our travelling adventure. Our journey consisted of 3, fairly lengthy flights with Royal Brunei. Alex had managed to charm his way into getting us both extra leg room seats for the first two flights, however we paid the price for our luck on the third flight when we found ourselves surrounded by hyper children and screaming babies for 7 hours. Overall our 30 hour journey to 'the land down under' was tolerable, yet I do wish to share the following information with you all. When we arrived in Brunei airport (before we connected for our final fight to Melbourne), Alex, a foreign exchange 'Senior Account Manager', opened his wallet to pay for our drinks to discover that he had purchased Malaysian Ringgit rather than Brunei Dollars for our stopover, much to my amusement.

We arrived in Melbourne at 5am to a very chilly and dark city, we then proceeded to meet James at a chic coffee shop in Windsor at 7am. After being shown around a little and grabbing some breakfast James welcomed us back to his flat where we decided to go a quick nap... we woke up 6 hours later. Jet lag has really hit us hard.

We spent the next few days figuring out our plans for the east coast and exploring the city. We visited the Melbourne museum, walked along South Bank by the river, explored Chapel St. in Windsor, went to Queen Victoria market and rode the city tram around the CBD.









We went for dinner with James at a Thai restaurant on Chapel St. on thursday evening, reminiscing about our trip two years ago where we all met. After an enjoyable meal and a round of Chang beers James took us to a bar for some cocktails. We both looked at him bizarrely when a few minutes later we followed him into 'Boston Subs', an American Sandwich shop. James then proceeded to speak to the guy behind the sandwich counter then beckoned us to the fridge door at the back. We followed James through the fridge door and stepped out into a stylish bar the other side.  'Boston Subs' is in fact a cover up sandwich shop for a secret, exclusive cocktail bar and going through the fridge door is the only way in. Impressive. Please also note in the photo below the crazy, fun glass that my banana daiquiri came in. Doubley impressive.

Our thoughts on Melbourne so far... a cosmopolitan, chic and chilled city, yet pricey and very chilly at this time of year.

Our delightful first photo together in
Oz whilst waiting for the city tram. One for the frame?