Arrival in Melbourn

All right, my first day in Australia... I arrived in Melbourne and was immediately welcomed into the world of Backpacking by my first Hostel ever !





It was as you can see not the worsed one I would have to stay in but definitely not the best :). Despite its accomodation it has a Bar, Pool Tables and a "Cinema"






Despite that Melbourne is an impressive city with an enourmes skyline. It is also home to the Royal Botanic Garden, which is showing the immense variety of Australias Fauna.

These pictures show the perth City Centre and the Perth Botanic Garden. Impressive isn't just the size of the Garden, but also that every larger City in Australia has one.

I used the first days to do some site seeing, but I figure out, that I soon will need a Job since I was
running out of money. Fortunately it turned out that there are heaps of Jobs down under, espacialy if u don't mind to do some Labouring. So my first Job was in a Relocations Company, moving furniture in the Univerity from A to B, wich payed $16.45 per Hour.





My Organisation meanwhile found two guy frome Germany who would arrive in Melbourne two weeks after me and suggested, that we might join together to chare cost and travel. So I met them prety sone and we figured out, that we had the same plans and bought a Car together. Holden Jakeroo for $3000, quite a price but since it was a 4 Wheel drive and we splidet the price it was affordable. What we didn't knew was, that it should break down 4 Month later, but more about that later...



This shows us later in Mildura. From the left Thomas, his brother Lucas and me. Thomas just finished College with a Degree in Physical Science and Lucas his apprenticeship as a Baker. I am propably more the standart Backpacker, that just finished the German High school and took some time of to travel the world.
Thomas infected us all with doing sport every day and we were propably the only Backpacker carrying dumbles around...

In memory of a great car, that took us all the way from Melbourne via Mildura to Kalgoorlie. Even it was just for us three the car was packed to the top with luggage and our campming equipment, wich we hardly used...
We took its 4 Wheel drive more than once to a test and even, if its very thirsty it was fun !!
So if u can afford one , I would recommend a 4 Wheel drive with all his space...

That much about the first part of my travel... The next one will be about our working stop in Mildura spiders, Grapes and new friends.