Melbourne is freezing!

Waking up at 3:15am is just such a joy, especially when it's to then sit on a bus for 13 hours. That was our day today on our final bus journey in Australia from Sydney to Melbourne. To say getting up at that time was hard would be a huge understatement but we made it to the bus stop with ten minutes to spare. We only had a 3 and a half hour drive to begin with and then a change of bus in Canberra before continuing. So technically we have been to the capital of Australia although based on its bus station you would never of guessed it. I managed to sleep on and off for this first part so it went pretty quickly. Nick researched into campervans some more as we drove because luckily the wifi worked. Canberra was freezing at 8am so we sat for 45 minutes trying to warm up over a shared latte. Soon enough it was back onto the bus to continue. This is the only time they've assigned seats and Nick was supposed to sit behind mevbut the driver just said to sit together. It made no sense why we were separated because the whole journey no one was meant to sit in either of seats next to our designated ones. Maybe they thought we'd want two seats to ourselves which we have been doing as long as they are opposite each other. I got into my new book, almost 200 pages into it, while Nick continued, dictionary in hand, to read Return of the King. We were able to watch youtube because we again had wifi and even though neither of us slept the journey seemed to fly by. Clearly leaving at 4:30am is the way forward. We arrived in Melbourne at 5pm and found a tram information point. We knew the route on the trams but needed what they call Myki cards to use it, basically an oyster card like they had in Sydney. Annoyingly we had to pay $6 each for this and then put money on it although we can get the extra money back off it this time. It was then we found out there's a free tram zone here and the place we are staying is only two stops outside this zone. So we bought these cards and paid $4 for a journey of two stops. Also discovered most people don't tap on once we pass the free zone to get a free ride. And then to top it all off our host provides you with cards to use so we didn't even need to pay for them... It was all a little bit annoying but we eventually made it on the most crowded of trams wearing ridicously large bags. We're staying in a lovely old Victorian style house but it's single glazed so is freezing! Luckily we have a heater and hot water bottles but it's so cold you barely want to even move from under the duvet. We were going to cook but it was so late we went for a meal at the nearest pub and paid a lot more than we'd want to but we needed food. Even the pub was freezing, Nick braved taking his jacket off but I sat in my cardigan, hoodie and fleece shivering. We then hit a massive downer as we realised Auckland is in line with Melbourne so New Zealand is going to be this cold and colder as you head south. This really made us realise we can't survive in a campervan in these temperatures so we then had a dilemma about what we are doing. I always need to have a plan and the fact that we don't really scares me. We spend so much time planning and thinking and days researching that we are missing the places we are visiting to try and work out what we are doing. We have 4 nights accommodation booked and then that's it, no plan. We really hit a low tonight and I did confess this to my family as we have been feeling down about travelling for a while but they helped pick us back up and realise tomorrow is another day and maybe it'll be the day we find work or fall back in love with travelling. Here's hoping.Read more