Off to Melbourne

Tom and I had been offered a lift to Young by Stuart who was now in a better mood. Smithy and Lauren had decided to hitch-hike from young to Melbourne which is about 600 to 700 kilometres. We got the bus to Cootamundra and sat about for roughly half an hour. We ordered a burger from the station café and when it came it was unbelievable. It had so much filling some rather strange but it was definitely the nicest burger I’ve had since I left Wales. Some of the more interesting ingredients in this burger were pineapple, grated carrot, egg and even beetroot. We ate our burgers just in time for the train to come to arrive. Tom and I got aboard, got the sleeping bag out and had a sleep for a few hours.
When we arrived at Melbourne roughly 7 hours later we found out the Smithy and Lauren had had a spot of luck and was roughly 30 mins behind. Tom and I got a taxi to the hostel which is just off the wind street equivalent called Brunswick Street. We checked into the hostel, well kind of, a really cool Irish guy opened the door for us and told us were staying. As I write this we are in our third day off our stay and I still haven’t paid or meet the manager.
That evening we rung an old friend which we had made in LA and road tripped with, Woody. He was ecstatic to hear that we were in Melbourne. Woody and a friend of his drove over to come and have a beer with us. We walked up and down Brunswick Street looking for somewhere to have a pint but because Tom and I had left our shoes in Young because they stank and they were totally trashed.