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St Kilda's, a beach suburb of Melbourne, has been made famous by Australian soap 'The Secret Life of Us' - a raw and close to the bone black comedy series following the loves and life of a group of misfit Melbournites.

We head for St Kilda's looking for lively nightlife and somewhere to soak up a few ray close to the cool waters of the Tasman sea.

We check into Warwick Apartments, a process which takes close on half an hour due to the immense amounts of paperwork the clerk needs to file before handiing us a key - hand written (war and peace style) receipts for the room, a handwritten receipt for a second key, and receipt for a phone deposit... Its worth it though - the room is recently refurbished and has a huge lounge connected to two large bedrooms ominously partitioned by a built in seven foot wardrobe with another seven foot of air between it an the ceiling.

Our time in Melbourne (actually, almost all in St Kilda's) is short - Tom leaves us the next morning and we need to head for Adelaide to catch a train to Perth... While Isobel heads for the city, Phil and I hire bikes and attempt to find an record shop/ticket outlet for a Friday night party we've seen advertised.

We cycle a few kilometres to the street with the shop - then spend two hours cycling up and down the street looking for it. Eventually we find it - its a clothes shop, not a bleeding record shop! We decide, on advice from the owner (and after all that hassle) not to buy tickets.

And its lucky we don't, as that evening the heavens open and water laps up around the stone doorstep of our motel room - Melbourne is under a deluge, Sydney has floods...

Its mid summer... What a weird country.

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